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Eighteen-year-old Nicholas Hammerstein is at the cusp of finishing high school in his hometown of Los Alamos, NM. He has a seemingly ideal life and is blessed with loving parents, a cute baby sister, and great friends. Nicholas is a gifted student and martial artist who has dreams of leaving for college at the end of his senior year. But, living in a world of Emergent humans, he will soon find his plans turned upside down as his life and the fate of a kingdom hang in the balance. His future and theirs will be determined by how he navigates the drastic changes in his body and the magical and...

Running into the woman who broke your heart is bad enough. Realizing you still want to kiss her is worse… They were best friends, first crushes, almost-loves, and the ones who never quite got away. Now they’re going to try to be friends – and maybe something more. This sapphic collection brings five friends-to-lovers romances where midlife women finally get their second chance at love. This collection includes: Worth Waiting For: Is thirty years too long to wait for a second chance? High school best friends run into each other in midlife and confess their secret love. But is it just ...

Whether it's a 300-year-old ghost who's scared out of his wits, a tenderhearted statue with a mission of mercy, or the suave Lord Savile who cannot commit a crime, the characters in these stories by witty Oscar Wilde make the tales priceless delights. Absurd, ironic, poignant, or scathing, these small gems of the storyteller's art are sure to become favorites. This collection, narrated by Frank Muller, includes "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," "The Model Millionaire," "The Nightingale and the Rose," and more.

"Hang ten!" takes on new meaning in this collection of erotic stories that follows the sexual escapades of those fabulous beach boys. Their taut, tanned bodies glistening with water and their hair damp from a dip in the ocean, these dudes are like sex on surfboards - fast, sleek, and oh so hot! The 19 stories - including "Blue Star Boy", "Samurai of the Surf", and "Surf Stud Initiation" - follow the adventures of these sensuous surfers from Cape Cod to Japan to Hawaii as they ride the waves of pleasure to anything from tender romance to raw, hardcore sex.

Ésta es la primera vez que voy a tener sexo con una chica. Mi rostro se encuentra encendido por la excitación de estar en la cama con una mujer. El alcohol y la euforia me llenan de deseo. Me deleito con la forma en la que ella cuela sus manos dentro de mi sostén: acariciando mi busto con sutileza, como si su tacto fuese parte de una rosa movida por el viento. Así comienza la nueva obra de Josefina A. Ruiz, ésta vez relatando la romántica pero erotica historia de dos amigas que se reencuentran para dar rienda suelta a su sexualidad.

Many a confident urban lesbian in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago was once a wide-eyed newcomer. Every year thousands of young women arrive in these queer-friendly cities, seduced by downtown life and its erotic possibilities. In Where the Girls Are, D.L. King collects explicit memoirs and stories about these newly arrived country girls. Here are stories of first times, initiations, bars, dance clubs, and parties, reading (or misreading) the codes - and sometimes teaching those city girls a thing or two in the process.

Miko Subaru pasó su vida huyendo de los demonios. Los reales… y los que llevan sangre humana. Después de presenciar el brutal asesinato de su madre a manos del clan Yakuza, Miko escapó de Japón hacia Alemania, donde intentó reconstruirse. Allí se convirtió en sacerdote, un alma pura entregada a sanar heridas ajenas mientras las suyas seguían sangrando en silencio. Nunca imaginó que, después de sobrevivir al horror, volvería a caer en manos de un monstruo… ni que ese monstruo despertaría en él algo más fuerte que el miedo. Sasha Kozlov vive para una sola cosa: venganza. ...

Carl and his father don't see eye to eye when it comes to the people Carl dates. See, Carl is gay and his latest boyfriend is Zack. Carl and Zack planned to move in together so Carl can get away from his oppressive father. Carl wanted to though a perfecet dinner party with his dad and Zack. Normally Carl's dad was against him haning out with Zack but with a little fight Carl's dad agrees. The only thing was Carl's dad had a plan to help Carl become more normal as he put it. Unkown to Carl his dad put his latest gender formula into Zack's drink in order to change Zack into a girl. However ...

This four book M/M romance bundle is for matured adults. This HEA sizzling hot bundle of four sensual erotic gay romance stories contains explicit sexual content with kinks for matured adults. When the Boys with Toys get together it’s not just to talk about their fast cars, fast motorcycles, but their hot men and how they met them but most of all how to keep them especially the ones who were straight. Book 1 Maxwell Gold never thought he would fall in love with a gay man, and especially one who is Trans with two ex-lovers who hold the secret to why they can’t let Jami walk away. Book 2 ...

An O, The Oprah Magazine LGBTQ Book ""Changing the Literary Landscape"" A gorgeously illustrated collection of essays written by today’s queer heroes—featuring contributions from Elton John, Tan France, Gus Kenworthy, Paris Lees, Russell Tovey, Munroe Bergdorf, and many others. The Queer...

In this voluptuously erotic collection, editor and best-selling author Rachel Kramer Bussel showcases the sensual side of having more to love, from the sexiness of big butts and plus-size corsets to the irresistible allure of pregnant bellies. No aspect of full-figured female sexuality is left unexplored, whether heterosexual or same-sex, raunchy or romantic, femme or butch.

Some call him a Russian Mark Twain. And with his special blend of comedy, social commentary, and fantasy, Nikolai Gogol paved the way for his countrymen Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. This sampling of Gogol's works includes the increasingly fantastic entries of The Diary of a Madman followed by the wonderfully surrealistic The Nose in which the title character embarks on some unlikely activities when separated from its owner's face. Rounding out the collection are the woefully comic tale of a clerk's acquisition of The Overcoat and Ivan Fyodorovich and his Aunt, in which the title character retires to his country estate, managed by a wily Aunt.

A broken man returning home from a tour of duty. He’d lost his identity. Once a soldier, a leader of men, but all he had now were a few love letters from a strange woman to give him comfort. Could this woman be as broken as he is? What would it take to make him whole—two broken pieces coming together? What would happen if Tony fell in love, because of a few letters, texts, and emails, only to discover that the person behind the letters wasn't who he imagined? The "Wounded Inked" 3 book series contain hurt/ comfort, straight to gay, and fake boyfriend with HFN, and HEA in the final book.

Sometimes dreams come true, whether you’re ready for them or not. Shane was only 14 when found a photo of a boy his age and became obsessed with it. Now, 13 years later, he has a chance encounter with a man who bears a striking resemblance. Already in a happy relationship, Shane must keep his fantasies in check while attempting to solve the mystery, but little does he realize just how many connections they share. The Boy at the Bottom of the Fountain is a heartwarming short story about love in its many forms, be they real or imagined.

Everything was fine until they had to work together… Their job descriptions did not mention falling in love! Five women are about to find out that mixing work and feelings is a terrible idea, but ignoring those feelings is worse. This steamy sapphic collection delivers friends-to-lovers romances where workplace boundaries blur, attraction gets inconvenient, and doing the job suddenly feels personal. This collection includes: My Spring Fling: It was supposed to be a vacation romance…until the woman she fell in love with becomes her new nanny! A workplace age gap romance. My Party Planner...

In this collection of short essays, Maine humor icon Tim Sample shares some of the quirkier aspects of growing up and living in Maine. Along the way he offers listeners a behind the scenes glimpse into his long career in the entertainment business. Sample waxes poignant—recalling old friends...

Sinclair Sexsmith presents a cornucopia of lesbian kink - tantalizing tales rich in variety and saucy details of girls put in their place - and held there firmly. A girly-girl reaps a sweet punishment for refusing to mess up her oh-so-pink lipstick and a well-equipped top takes charge. Whether listeners dream of surrendering to a lover or of taking control, Say Please offers plenty of erotic inspiration and gives listeners exactly what they want!

This 3 book box set Redeem Me series are the final books in the Wounded Inked small town series. Rescue Me Book 1 When Brian strode away and climbed into his car, never looking back, and drove north to his hometown of Nevermore, he knew in an instant that he’d live to regret his decision. “I had promised everyone who cared about me, that I wouldn’t give in to my passion and urges to take care of young men ever again. After all I’d turned forty, and what did I have to show for it? A husband who’d tired of me, my finances dwindling, and no one to share a life with. I drove away ...

Individualism: A Reader provides a wealth of illuminating essays from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. In 26 selections from 25 writers, individualism is explained and defended, often from unusual perspectives. The depth and complexity of ideas about individualism are reflected in the six sections in this collection. The first examines individuality generally, with the following five detailing social, moral, political, religious, and economic individualism.

Got a big pole that needs planting? Need help getting the heat turned back on? Well, strap on your tool belt and get ready for a rough ride! The hunks of Hard Working Men will do whatever it takes to get the job done. These sweaty studs, brawny bears, and cocksure construction workers go all out to turn on, tune up, and fulfill every work order. In the world of Hard Working Men, hats aren't the only things that are hard.