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Little Birds: Erotica

He's the ex-bodyguard with a guitar case of secrets. She's the pop princess who needs his protection. Now they're stuck in a cabin with only one bed. Finn Davenport has spent the last year living alone on his California ranch. A former Navy SEAL with a bleeding heart, he's going to hide in his...

After her son leaves for college and her empty nest feels more like an abandoned tomb, single mom Hannah James escapes to a remote cabin in Balsam Ridge, Montana, hoping solitude, stargazing, and small-town quiet will help her learn how to be alone again. What she doesn’t expect? A gorgeous stranger at her cabin door wearing only a towel.

In this steamy and intoxicating dark mafia romance, Wren Montana will do anything to save her brother – even make a bargain with the most dangerous man in Los Angeles. Bane Rivera. My name is feared in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles. There is only one rule that I live by, only one rule...

Devon Murphy has never believed that there were fairies at the bottom of the garden, but when he's in an accident on his way to his grandmother's house and comes face to face with the biggest, baddest wolf he's ever seen, he's forced to reconsider. When his grandmother asks him to look into a string of suspicious accidents, he finds a much bigger mystery to unravel. From his childhood best friend to the too-attractive deputy Wade Hunter, everyone in Rowan Harbor seems to have something to hide. Devon has to get to the bottom of it all before the accidents turn deadly.

Quando um encontro casual desperta um vínculo improvável entre os assassinos e rivais Sloane e Rowan, eles constroem algo aparentemente impossível: uma amizade de duas almas sombrias que por acaso gostam de matar outros serial killers. À medida que a sua amizade se transforma em algo mais, o perigo aumenta e eles passam de predadores a presas, correndo o risco de perder não só o amor recém-descoberto, mas a própria vida.

Fifteen years ago, Sawyer Caldwell murdered four people—but left me alive. Now, on the run from my abusive ex, the dense Appalachian forest where I once escaped a killer's grasp is the only place I feel safe. Except someone's lurking in those trees. Watching me. Waiting. It can't be Sawyer Caldwell. He's dead. Shot by the police. So who's hunting me in the woods— And why do I wish it's the serial killer who let me live?

Despite her amazing abilities, all Sun Song Shia ever wanted was to be loved. But it's hard to find love when you don't even know who you really are. Little Bird is an expansion of In Her Eyes, originally published in F&SF, a nominee for the Sturgeon award, an honoree for the James Tiptree award, and included in the 2015 Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas (edited by Paula Guran).

Ryder thought the hardest part would be admitting what he wants. He was wrong. The hardest part is what happens when someone with authority decides Ryder's desire is something he can schedule, test, and control—and Ryder keeps showing up anyway. In Early Bird, Ryder's mornings start before sunrise, pulled into the swim facility by messages that read less like invitations and more like instructions. By day, he has to function like a normal freshman—practice, classes, campus life—while carrying the private consequences of what he's gotten himself into.

In this taboo stepbrother romance, Xander and Skyler will experience heartache, betrayal, and pain. However: where darkness creeps, light will surely follow. Follow their paths to self discovery and love as they battle the inevitability of life and the tragedies that come from it.

Bethany Votaw gives you 16 short stories featuring the darkness and the monsters surrounding us. Experience the uncomfortable realities lurking beneath the surface. Meet a devil at a coffee shop, discover what the Night Man is really after, and stumble upon strange creatures and events lurking just beneath the surface.

He collected beautiful things. Rare things. Ripped them out of their natural environment and preserved them in all of their dead splendor. The problem was I wasn't beautiful. I was all of the hideous and ugly realities of the world packaged into one broken human being. He came to kill me. That was his business. Death. He ripped me out of my natural environment, the prison I'd created, and locked me away with all of his beautiful dead things.

A Gothic Mary Poppins Retelling.

This is a love story. It is a semi-fictional story derived from actual circumstance and real events, mostly observed from a male perspective, but strongly driven by females. These events occurred during the feminist revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s, which brutally took down many confused men and many unwary women as gender wars wrecked lives along the way. Admittedly, there were genuinely repressed women who were liberated as a result of that revolution, but it cannot be denied that there was a lot of collateral damage in the process.

Жизнь – театр, где все мы играем какие-то роли. Какая тайна скрывается в прошлом скромной аптекарши из провинциального городка? Чего боится начальник городской стражи? Поможет ли любовь им сбросить маски и одолеть своих демонов?

The archeologist left instructions for his daughter in the event of his death. Soren is to find and destroy the artifact that he was killed for, a magical object with the power to unmake all of Entheas. As she closes in on finding answers, she is kidnapped and taken to the Mountains of Thorncrest. There, she is surprised to find that her captor is not only the dark stranger she has been dreaming about, but the killer’s son. Everything she once knew unravels around her as she discovers the reason for her imprisonment.

When the oracle warns Prince Aeson that his future mate is in the human realm and is in great danger, he wastes no time going in search of her. Problem is he has no idea who he's looking for. He's never met her, and the oracle couldn't give him anything more than small clues as to who she is and where she might be.