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Taylor Rolley did not expect his old troll mask to become his ticket into the wildest fairy tale of his life. Curious, nervous, and more than a little out of his depth, Taylor follows his friend Lou to an invite-only erotic masquerade where secrecy is the rule, masks are mandatory, and fairy tales are the theme. His role? The Troll. The problem? No one warned him the party would be full of temptation, naked strangers, and one mysterious Goat who feels far too familiar. Then Taylor realizes the woman behind the mask may be Celeste —the crush he never got over.

Pearl Hollandale’s birthday party is supposed to be winding down. The drinks were perfect. The guests had fun. Her luxury apartment survived the celebration. And Michael, her always-polished friend and event-saving bartender, has been making it increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that he might want more than friendship. Then there is Professor Gaston. Sharp-eyed, charming, and far too good at turning a simple cherry-stem trick into a dare, he makes Pearl wonder exactly how many hidden talents one man can have.

When Emily wakes in a hospital after a devastating car accident, she remembers nothing about her life before the crash. Not her home. Not her past. Not even the man sitting beside her bed claiming to be her husband. Daniel is patient, comforting, and devoted. He tells her the memory loss is temporary. That healing will take time. That everything is going to be okay. But something feels wrong. The house they return to is filled with unfamiliar photographs, locked doors, and whispers that seem to move through the walls at night.

Justin Peters thought coming home would mean closure. Instead, it marks the beginning. After a suspicious fire destroys his parents' house, Justin returns to Brainerd, Minnesota — and to the frozen shoreline of Rice Lake, where the past once felt safe. But grief quickly turns to dread when violence follows him home. A slaughtered dog placed with precision. A woman vanishing the same night as the fire. A financial trail leading back to a secret affair buried in 1997.

Poor Kelsey Williams! This 18-year-old high school senior is so excited about flying to London tomorrow for her class trip! Unfortunately, she innocently forgot to get a physical exam before she'll be allowed to leave. Not to worry… dirty-minded Headmaster Johnathan Spottisswoode has teamed up with the dirty-minded biology teacher to conduct a last-minute exam right here in school…under Johnathan's careful oversight, of course! The poor girl…it's bad enough to have to submit to any comprehensive medical exam.

Highschool Bible Studies teacher, Aubrey Jameson, loves her job more than anything. Unfortunately, her choice of attire is not in keeping with the high moral standards one would expect at a school as pious and dignified as Evergreen Academy. And the dirty-minded school headmaster, Johnathan Spottisswoode won't stand for it!

In this third audiobook in the series, Alexander goes up against shadow smashers. These monsters jump from shadow to shadow, causing problems all over town! Meanwhile, a member of Alexander's Super Secret Monster Patrol (SSMP) may turn out to BE a monster!

Ray Cummings’ The Man Who Saved New York is a vintage science fiction adventure blending wartime suspense, strange psychic power, and pulp-era spectacle. When Porky discovers his consciousness can possess other beings, his unusual gift becomes New York’s last defense against a Nazi attack...

Headmaster Johnathan Spottisswoode is thrilled! He's just received a one-million-dollar donation to the school from a Mr. Harrison McKinley, father of one of the students. There's just one catch…in exchange for the money, Harrison tells Johnathan to find a gorgeous 18-year-old senior who is at risk of failing her senior year and offer her all As in exchange for…her body! What could possibly go wrong?

I've never done the "relationship" stuff in my fifty-plus years, nor have I wanted to. I keep it simple—sex, bikes, booze, and brotherhood. Throw in a pocketful of suckers and consider me satisfied. Now she's here with a secret that rocks the very foundation of my life and an ass that just won't quit. People will die... The balance must be restored... and I don't know if I can give her more.

When a large deposit of an immensely valuable mineral has been located on Earth's moon, an expedition has been sent to mine it in secret. But when the secret gets out, underhanded elements of the people of Mars, Venus, and Earth launch their own secret plot to hijack the claim and make a fortune. It is up to our hero, Gregg Haljan, and his trusted ally Snap Dean to safeguard Earth's acquisition of the Moon treasure and protect the brave men of the expedition from... the BRIGANDS OF THE MOON!

Written in 1901, this anthology contains stories such as The Story of the Beginning, Odin’s Reward, The Hammer of Thor, and The Punishment of Loki. As the gods of Asgard continue to permeate pop culture, this book will send you back to the origin of these myths.

The year is 2061. The Red Dragon Crime Syndicate is king, and for all those lucky enough to be members of this crime family, life is damn good. Well, not for everyone.... For two entry-level gangsters in Tharsis City, Mars, life in the Syndicate isn’t quite all guns and glamour. That’s right. Long before they were mortal enemies, Spike Spiegel and Vicious were just two friends clawing their way up the crime ladder and trying to have a little fun while doing it. But when an opportunity to pull a job for their boss arises, it’s make-or-break time. 

Money Shot finds Cummings riffing on a wide range of topics - chiefly, the differences between men and women and how both tend to behave in relationships.

It was supposed to be a night to get drunk, a night to get stoned, a night to get laid. But at an after-hours party in a house on the rich side of town, an old acquaintance has walked out of the darkness, dragging the past with him. The meeting is no chance affair, and it can only mean that someone is gunning for Nicki Valentine, someone who's used to getting what he wants and who has the means to take it, whatever the cost.

An action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic thriller by Lindsay Cummings, co-author (with Sasha Alsberg) of the New York Times #1 Bestseller Zenith. This is the dark and compelling sequel to The Murder Complex, which Booklist praised as “carefully crafted . . . chilling,” and which Justine...

Conner De la Croix watches his wife, Karolina, wither and die an agonizing death from cancer. He struggles with her loss until someone unexpectedly enters his life pulling him out of his depression and into the world of the paranormal. Through a series of strange events, revelations, discoveries, twists and turns, Conner changes fundamentally, and as the Alpha male comes out in him, passions erupt, and revenge and death are sure to follow!

The Apocalypse was not supposed to rest on Jessica Norgren's shoulders. When the struggling law clerk finds herself pregnant with no possible human father, she learns more than she ever wanted to know about angels and demons. With her best friend, Tsung Li, to help her navigate this tough new terrain, she finds herself mixed up with Watchers, archangels, succubi, athletes and Buddhist monks in a confusing melange of hope and fear.

The year is 1969. The place - somewhere in the Pacific. Following a wild and sexy mishap aboard the Trump family yacht, 23-year-old Donald finds himself on a tropical island which just happens to be inhabited by seven stranded castaways! Among those castaways are two of the most lusted-after lovelies this side of Pogo Pogo - gorgeous movie star Gina LaPlante and farm girl extraordinaire Mary Lynn Saunders.

It was a time when music fans copied and traded recordings without permission. An outraged music industry pushed Congress to pass anti-piracy legislation. Yes, that time is now; it was also the era of Napster in the 1990s, of cassette tapes in the 1970s, of reel-to-reel tapes in the 1950s, even the phonograph epoch of the 1930s. Piracy, it turns out, is as old as recorded music itself. In Democracy of Sound, Alex Sayf Cummings uncovers the little-known history of music piracy and its sweeping effects on the definition of copyright in the United States.