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Sloane West is an ex-New York City cop turned private investigator, Irish whiskey aficionado, and untrained witch in an emotional slump. Her mother just died, and her ex-best friend and ex-lover have sent her an invitation to their upcoming nuptials. Thankfully, a solicitor arrives and distracts her faster than a night of drinking Jameson neat with news that Sloane has inherited her late grandparents'—who she didn't know existed—island estate.

When Castellani Family hitman Jack is ordered to find a missing Hollywood starlet, the last thing he expects is for his only lead to be the out-of-his-league guy who spent last night flirting with him. Miller Beaumont is gorgeous, charming and looks at Jack like he’s the only person in the room. Jack was captivated from the moment their eyes met. But Jack’s not built for love. Not after the sins he’s committed.

I left my family and tiny Texas hometown 15 years ago to escape small-town gossips and to give my mom and sister the chance at a better life. But when a phone call from an attorney back home informs me that my sister passed away, leaving me custody of her newborn baby, I'm shocked out of the steady life I've built for myself running a tattoo shop in San Francisco. The thing is: I don't do babies. And I don't do small towns. Or commitment. And I especially don't do family.

An awkward, traumatized omega and a patient alpha determined to court him properly...fate has a way of righting old wrongs. Stolen from his mother’s arms and reported stillborn at birth, Tom spent nearly 21 years in structured captivity with other stolen omegas. His brothers. A dozen omegas, each with a secret superpower, who now must learn a whole new skill - how to thrive in a modern world. Not every brother emerged from their past unscathed, and Tom had the worst of it. His key to survival was a healthy respect for rules.

Once upon a time on a long-ago stormy night, a poor farmer encountered a mysterious great white bear who offered to trade him vast wealth in exchange for his handsome youngest son. Though hesitant at first, young Aiden agreed to go with the white bear in order to help his family have a better life and for his many brothers and sisters to get good marriages, while he thought his dream of finding a romantic Prince Charming to call his own may never come true.

Someone in town has a macabre passion for beautiful young men. Healthy, gym-toned male bodies keep turning up, tortured, drained of blood, missing parts, and quite, quite dead. Someone is using the Creative City as a canvas of gruesome, sadistic creativity. Someone... or something. At the end of her investigative rope, WeHo city coroner Becky O’Brien calls upon the aid of an old college friend, Christopher Driscoll, who is an expert on serial killers.

From the outside, Kasey James had the perfect life. She had a rich husband, two perfect kids, and a big house in Eastside with a pool in the backyard. None of her friends understand why she left her husband and went back to a stressful job teaching high school. She knows they’ll understand even less when she tells them she’s started dating a woman from Westside. If she tells them, that is. After all, Kasey has her kids to think of, not to mention the upcoming school board election. What if her neighbors withdraw their support when they find out she’s seeing a woman?

When vacationing Chicago detectives Nick and Norm witness a tragic accident involving a famous entertainer, the local police chief asks for their help. The duo's investigation uncovers crime and corruption in paradise as they come face-to-face with a ruthless killer...as homegrown eccentrics, drag queens, and dwarves rush to their aid in this heart-pounding thriller!

While the man who’d brought me to Florida was on his own adventures, I found my way to some gay dance bar. Being as shy as I generally am, I am not sure how I got to dancing with the tall cute guy. He must have asked me, because like I said, I’m shy. Drinking generally makes me even more shy. However, it happened, in the way meetups in clubs do. Attraction met attraction, and late that night, out of the club we went. With me ultimately ending up on a side street in the backseat of his car, heatedly exchanging kisses with this incredibly gorgeous college boy until dawn.

SISSY LUST ADULT THEATER is about a middle-aged corporate man whose video viewing habits become a little too real. His home life has become a little too stale, and so he looks for an outlet. He starts hanging out in an adult video arcade and meets up with a Sissy Fem. The focus of his fantasy becomes real and he goes deeper into a dark place inside him he never knew existed.

IS CHEATING ON YOUR GAY BOYFRIEND WORTH IT? I'm a two-timing, panty-wearing Sissy Fem boy. I have two boyfriends and am having the time of my life! Neither of them knows about each other... or do they? When I find that they have a thing of their own going on, I decide to expose the secret, and we all end up in a sensual threesome. The ensuing double-barrel action will leave you on the edge of your seat!

Welcome to the world of Bay West Social. Twenty-something Meg McTiernan is all about her career when her house hunt unexpectedly lands her at Bay West - a lesbian mecca tucked away in the suburbs of NYC - and her social life is given a turbo boost. There's a pool, a softball league, even a nightclub practically in her backyard. In this loaded environment, finding the right girl just got a lot more interesting.

When Cuban fisherman first spotted the Key West lighthouse floating in Florida waters, they called her Stella Maris, Star of the Sea. It’s a beacon that draws people from everywhere seeking the end-of-the-line bohemian oasis that can still be found amidst the condo share towers, chain stores, and Redneck Riviera clientele. And it’s a mecca for gay men and the women who love them. Sue Kaufman Prize-winning author Michael Carroll knows the territory intimately. His stories wind in and out of the bars and guesthouses and lives of this singular paradise.

Chadwick has the world at his fingertips. An elite editor in Manhattan's publishing world. A hot and heavy newlywed in a plural marriage. The fortunate son of a mystical matriarch. When Chad heads home to bury his estranged mother Hazel, he plans to confront his toxic ex, Juni, for what he vows to his husband and wife will be the final time. But Saw Creek, Oregon, is far from the idyllic logging community Chad remembers as a kid. For starters, why the hell has the town cemetery been converted into a communal farm?

When I first entered college, I began to notice new things about myself. I rekindled my love of dressing in women's lingerie, and I found I liked looking at men in the gym shower. In the shower, I met a professor that seemed to have a crush on me. I became so bold in my cross-dressing that I visited an Adult Theater dressed as a Sissy Fem. I 'met' my favorite Professor there under the most unusual circumstances! I've always been fascinated by women's underwear and lingerie. But it was when I moved to open-minded California that I began to 'blossom'.

Shoot Me, Jesus is a “novel in short stories”, what writer Jane Lawless called “erotic magic realism with a Southwestern spiciness.” Humor is an essential element of each story. The 11 linked tales move forward and backward in time in the manner of flashbacks and foreshadowing in a novel, though the plots are always character-driven. It is their realizations, insights, and inner changes that move the collection along.

At Home, Chad minds fresh eggs. And he’s really bad at it. His breakage ratio might improve if he had clean sheets. Or a bed. Or socks. Or shoes. And definitely some band-aids would go a long way to adjusting his mood. At Home, Chad finds no allies among men. Klint, former all-star tormentor of Saw Creek High, is all-in on the communal farm they tend along with Beck, a kid on the spectrum - who doubles as Juni’s look-out.

Juni is dying to meet Hunter, Chad’s husband. Seems like it’s easy to be married to Hunter. He plays squash and makes bank. As far as awkward meetings go, where somebody ends up dead, this one’s #goals. Chad’s shadow, Beck, is now his best student, as Juni slowly hands over the reins of Home’s daily operation - and indoctrination - to her ex. She’s slightly jealous of Chad’s ability to mindshare with "our kids", - a talent Juni lacks. Pop’s passing brings Juni to a decision point. Is Chad ready to know the truth? Yes. Is Chad ready to know the whole truth?

At 16, Juni was anything but sweet to Chad. Her heart bursts when they fall in love, then breaks when Chad accepts admissions overseas, then blooms when she becomes unexpectedly pregnant. Losing their daughter London would have ended any young mother, but Juni found Chad’s mom, Hazel, waiting for her in Saw Creek to nurse her emotional wounds, feed her soul, and fill her spirit. A decade later, Juni answers the alarm Hazel sounds when an apparent epidemic of vast social consequence kills off any female who dares set foot outside Saw Creek.

At Saw Creek High, Juni was not the hottest chick in the room, but the smartest. After she and Chad accidentally set a fir grove aflame as kids, they never sold each other out - or spoke again. Until academic big-shot Chad brings her a beer and an adventure in Cambridge, England, on his academic full-ride. But Juni punches her return ticket home when tragedy strikes during their daughter London’s birth. A decade later, Chadwick is wed in plural matrimony to Alice, an erudite architect, and Hunter, a no-holds barred urban developer.