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When River McAllister escaped from Shallow Hill, she left her innocence behind—and some of her sanity. Now, she's rebuilding her life with her dream man, and life couldn't be better.

Exploring otherness, identity, faith, religion, gender and sexual trauma, Hag brings together a gripping collection of tales that are unsettlingly timely and wickedly sinister. E

Here, presented in one volume, are the four stories that comprise the Filthy series, a seriously hot and provocative romance by Lucia Jordan, written in her signature style of high passion and emotion. Gabriel remembered how good she’d felt in his arms when they’d been lovers. The feel of her wildly beating pulse, her scent, her warmth. He’d left his mark on her slender throat more than once. Though he smiled and made small talk, his attention remained with the woman he’d never expected to see again. Angie is now a cop, and the bad boy is back to change her life forever.

Between 1896 and 1922, in addition to a series of full-length novels Lucy Maud Montgomery published over 140 short stories. In general, these tales are reflective of the coming of age themes and the sylvan settings which are explored in greater detail in the novels.

Gia loves her job working as a paramedic. She loves the adrenalin rush and sense of fulfillment that comes from saving lives, and has sacrificed almost everything else in order to satisfy her addiction to her work. When Gia finds herself at the end of a long shift doing CPR with a stranger, she can’t deny the sparks that fly between them. What follows is the most intensely animalistic and sensual encounter Gia has ever experienced.

This book covers many questions about how we as a country got to Black American racism. As I found more and more answers, I realized how many of them were totally new to me and how I felt that I had been so deceived about so much of our history. After talking to many people, Black and white, I knew that it wasn't just me who had been deceived. There is so much that has been done to Black Americans over the ages, not just slavery, that I felt everyone could understand better if various truths were revealed.

In a dystopian future where Greek gods and goddesses have surpassed history and continue to coexist with humans, a war between species has broken out. Nova, "The Restoress," has been sent as the weapon of capacity for "The Greats," the remaining group of gods and goddesses. According to prophecy, she has the ability to absorb all evil from humans and restore the balance of hierarchy. Thrown into a world where emotions are deemed to be forbidden distractions, indicators of human corruption, Nova must remain objective and focused.

When Dr Anna Diaz moves from an urban practice in Cardiff to take on a new job in Bly, a remote village in rural Wales, she finds a community reeling from the unexpected death of their last GP and a startling number of curious rare medical conditions. Among them, a young woman who has become so hairy she looks like an ape, a farmer who is growing new bones, a teacher who hasn't slept for a month, and an old man who has gained enormous amounts of weight and has horns growing out of his head. Deeply unsettled, the locals feel something viral and horrendous is happening to them...

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as childhood trauma, the influence of media on a writer’s imagination, and substance abuse. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

My parents' crazy love for each other is the backbone of the story of the Mojer Mafia. They got together in 1962, and our lives were very closely intertwined with my mom's older and younger orphaned siblings from the start. We lived together off and on and traveled together and separately across the United States as self-chosen nomads, living in at least ninety-two houses in five states for the next twenty years.

Exhibitionism and narcissism coupled with talent are not the sole property of modern entertainment, as some might suppose. From the beginnings of American theater and film, various personality types prone to self-intoxication by the status of their own careers have acted-out at will in their public lives. For them, there is no barrier between the professional and the private.

During the last 100 years, Susan B. Anthony has been one of the most venerated women in American history. In the process of becoming one of the most famous Americans of her era, Anthony’s legacy has overshadowed many of her contemporaries who were also active in the fight for civil rights. Among them, few led as interesting or progressive a life as Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, who grew up in a family that encouraged every kind of pursuit for girls and provided an educational foundation that would propel Walker in many fields.

Hannah’s story is astonishing, the sort of information your mind and heart simply want to reject. The depths of human cruelty and callousness that she has endured are so extreme that you will find yourself struggling to accept it, even as the undeniable evidence is displayed before you. Fire has left its indelible marks upon her skin, covering her entire upper body in a pattern of soft whirls and divots, a testimony to the suffering she has endured at the hands of her ex-husband and so many others—all of whom were meant to be heroes, but revealed themselves to be monsters.

It’s 1968, and Cathryn Vogeley is 18, unmarried, and pregnant. With a wedding no longer an option, she decides to put her baby girl up for adoption and never think about it again. Her decision shapes the rest of her life. For decades, Cathryn allows this choice to define her value as a woman, a wife, and a mother. In every relationship, in every hobby, she searches for something or someone to soothe the constant ache in her chest created by the loss of her infant daughter.

When a full moon falls on the night of a solar eclipse, it’s called a Blood Moon. The Goddess has a major influence on nights like this, and only complete isolation can keep a Shifter or Spark safe from her supernatural matchmaking. Carly, a Spark, a.k.a. a magic wielder, takes a big risk when she gives in to the temptation of a night of fun with her human best friend. One bad decision after another leaves Carly and her friend in the wrong place. Surrounded by potential Shifter and Spark mates, Carly’s only desire is to make it through the night single.

The small town of Harmony’s number-one Internet sensation is crime reporter turned blogger, Sheila Sammartino. Everything is going great for Sheila until she witnesses a newcomer to the neighborhood, Arthur Jones, murdered in the alley next to Harry’s Bagel Shop. The police are quick to call it a mugging gone wrong, but Sheila saw what she saw. With the help of her outspoken former college roommate and her handsome new next-door neighbor, she takes it upon herself to get all the answers the police refuse to look for. Who was Arthur Jones, after all? And who would want to kill him?

Many consider Ricky Yamamoto to be the island’s most competent diver, but the police think she has a few screws loose. When her morning dive is interrupted by a spinning tangle of chains, bodies, and what appears to be a truck axle, she is dragged into an international free-for-all. As authorities bicker and rumors fly, the crime crew fights to eliminate loose ends, following Ricky through WWII tunnels, on a high speed chase through the lush islands of Palau, and back to where it all began - the edge of her favorite cliff.

When Charlie's father dies, she's devastated. Then, her worst nightmare begins. The king wants young, beautiful Charlie to marry the admiral's son, ensuring her safety and security for life. However, such a union would cut off her greedy Aunt Kathy financially forever. With too much to lose, Aunt Kathy concocts a harebrained scheme to seize Charlie's inheritance, paying devious pirates to abduct her vulnerable niece—a perfect idea, at first.

If time heals all wounds, would five years be enough? It has been five long years since the day Lana left Blake in the dead of night with their baby growing in her belly. For five years, she has been keeping their child a secret from him. In Lana's mind, not telling Blake about the baby was for the better. Blake broke her heart, and she was sure he would break their daughter's, too. But a series of unfortunate hurdles has knocked Lana off-balance. She has no other choice but to go back to Nebraska and move back in with her aunt. Surely, Blake has left by now.

Becoming a Woman of Substance finds Miriam Levine Butler at age 38, having had an epiphany. The Great Depression rages on and on in 1938. Her beloved son Aaron is in California, trying to be a screenwriter. She ventures out of her purgatory and goes back to her old haunt, Romany Marie’s café, where she hears about the Federal Theatre Project and its daunting director, Hallie Flanagan. This launches her new life as she returns to her early love of theater, but this time as a field investigator of drought victims in the growing fields of California.