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Is it just me? Or are all relationships complicated? I feel a little bit like it might just be me. Because I seem to be the common denominator in every one of my f--ked-up relationships. The only relationship I have that’s not f--ked up is with my octogenarian sidekick, Al. Although even his loyalty has come into question a time or two - like when he tried to turn in his two-weeks' notice and I was forced to remind him that he can’t quit a job he doesn’t have. And even if he could, then he wouldn’t get to hang out with me anymore.

Derek: The girl makes my body burn with lust. She makes me want to wrap her hair around my fist and f--k her hard. To make her scream my name in pleasure. Demand her sweet surrender while I dominate her in every way I know how. But first, she has to pay for the sin of her father. Scarlett: He was going to take what I didn’t want to give. My complete submission. But somehow, his muscular body makes my body clench in ways I've never felt before. I start to crave the heat of his touch and his commanding voice. I really should stay away. But being punished has never felt so good.

The decision was made. Hunter Monroe is now the Icon known as Paragon. The man called Infinity - nearly unstoppable, the most powerful, and fuel by rage - is dead. The victory claimed in the wake of his death came at a price. Now a year later, the Imperial Lords are no more, and Hunter finds himself as an intern to a powerful Icon he once called an enemy. When Hunter and his team receive a message alerting them that Impervious - their invincible leader - has gone missing in his attempts to help another world, the young Icons take action.

Jake saw something unspeakable when he was nine. An act of violence. Brutal. He doesn't know it, but this trauma will play a key role in shaping him later in life. Now, he's 15. A wimp. He flinches. Always. He seeks the guidance of the biggest bad-ass he knows, his cousin Nick. Nick is a professional burglar and makes Jake his apprentice. Nick teaches Jake his dark philosophy - that there is no right or wrong in the world, just a series of events that happen without meaning. At first this helps Jake, but it also unleashes an aggression in himself he never thought possible....

It is December 1851. Teenage Elise Herbert and her family have come to Strasbourg, France, for a more prosperous life. Her mother Magdalena, father Georges, and siblings Nora, Charles, and Frank are there. Then Elise meets the young handsome Alois Meunier. They fall in love, marry, and begin their lives together, full of happiness, joy, and the beginnings of their little family. The coming of war brings change to Strasbourg, the Herberts, and all of Europe. And Alois holds a secret that, if it catches up to him, would destroy them both.

A quirky English chap with a taste for fine scotch, Dr. Phineas Templeton builds a time machine at the behest of his mysterious benefactor. His mission? To meet Jesus Christ Himself, and garner all of the fame, recognition, and accolades that writing an epic time travelogue would bring. Unfortunately for Finny, Jesus is actually a fellow time traveler, a hippie named Trent from Colorado in the future. While Trent explains that the past is fixed and immutable, Dr. Templeton realizes that he's made a horrible oversight in his calculations, and can't return to his own time period.

A Bahamian Cruise. A dysfunctional family. An out of this world occurrence. (This short story is a vignette that will one day be the basis for a novel).

Technically, there’s only one girl on this island that I’ve been told to stay away from. One. And she just showed up on my doorstep looking like a hooker at a ho parade. Why, you ask? Well, according to her, I’m the only one on Paradise Isle that can help her. The only. Fucking. One. Go figure. So what am I supposed to do? Turn her away and look like an asshole? This whole “being a good person thing” isn’t as easy as it’s cracked up to be. Bear with me, will you? I’m still learning the ropes.

As the crown prince of Dubreva, Phillip lived a life without regrets. Until now. Disgraced and humiliated by his very public breakup with his ex- fiancée, Phillip just wants to move on with his life as quietly as a billionaire prince can. He can’t avoid his duties to his people - but he never expected to be thrown into the path of a beautiful CEO who’s even more famous than he is. And richer. Not to mention, the media empire she built from the ground up is watching his every move.

What happens when you mix together a bored teenager, his girlfriend, and his younger brother with a reckless goblin intent on making Halloween last forever, and a witch with out-of-this world culinary skills? It's The Longest Halloween, a modern day fable that celebrates belief in oneself and family togetherness.

What really happened when the first man and the first woman were expelled from paradise? Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Garden, part of the expansive Hildenverse of stories.

A jaded professor of religion and an evangelical work together to stop a serial killer - the timeless tale of an unlikely pair joining forces in a common cause and finding themselves transformed along the way.

The Communist Manifesto is an 1848 political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognized as one of the world's most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production.

With Earth becoming uninhabitable, humanity's future rests upon the weary shoulders of Pat and Mylah as they struggle to survive in the trying lands of Hethrim. The promise of a new world to serve as humanity's cradle was ruined in a single night at the hands of the Maruga. These dark creatures of terrifying power have already taken residence on Hethrim and seek to claim it as their own. While the strength of mankind proves futile against the Maruga, Pat becomes the key to destroying the fearsome demons.

A coming-of-age tale set in 1975 New York, Stainer follows the misadventures of a naïve Jewish Columbia University student named Benjamin Steiner, who, on the night of his 21st birthday, meets not only the sweet girl of his dreams, a lovely young lady named Rebecca Glaser, but also an unprincipled drug-loving rogue from Princeton called P. T. Deighland. Ben's immature inability to resist temptation and an overwhelming need to be "cool" gradually cause him to fall under Deighland's malign influence.

Daniel T. Drunk, Jr. if you really wanna know. And I’m on a plane headed to Paradise Isle on the trip of a lifetime. The occasion? My honeymoon. Except, there’s only one problem. I’m riding solo. It’s a really long story, and if you don’t mind, I’d prefer to leave it at that. Really? You must know? Fine, I get it. You’re the nosey type. Here’s the abbreviated version. I came within an inch of marrying a cheating slut. There. Get the picture? Good.

Hero or villain. A choice that every Icon, a person born with powers, eventually has to make if they don’t want to live a life of mediocrity. For most Icons the decision is easy. Just do what your parents did. Then, there is Hunter Monroe. A powerful young Icon born from the unimaginable union of a hero and villain. Seventeen years later Hunter is seen as a half-breed abomination by some, and as a certified powerhouse by others. With his time at Purgatory Academy, the premier institute for Icons, coming to an end, Hunter must embark on a two year internship with a supergroup.

Professor Hanko shares with his listeners homely yet highly meaningful lessons he learned from growing up in a covenant family and covenantal church community. He also tells the specific benefits of praying to the sovereign God of the universe, who knows our sins and weaknesses, but loves us still. Valuable is the professor’s clear explanation of how God can be likened to the father of an earthly family, loving and caring for his own dear children.

I’ve often dreamed of bumping into the three hot alphas I spent my school days crushing over. In those dreams, I’m sexy and sophisticated. The kind of omega who knocks them off their feet. Unfortunately, the day that dream becomes a reality – the day I’m reunited with Pack Hart – I’m dressed as a Christmas elf. Yep, an elf – complete with pointy ears, stripy stockings and bells on my shoes.

Having escaped from the tower, Bradley and his company were transported to a random destination within Arcana. With nothing more than the sun and a stiff wind to lead them, they make their way back to Abyss, where the undercurrents of war had long begun to brew. Iron Fist Thorken, a Brigadier General with a lust for war, has already taken a seat within Abyss and commanded its men to set off against their enemies. Bradley returns as merely a pawn thrown into the turbulent winds of Arcana.