Nabokov Noir places Vladimir Nabokov's early literary career—from the 1920s to the 1940s—in the context of his fascination with silent and early sound cinema and the chiaroscuro darkness and artificial brightness of the Weimar era, with its movie palaces, cultural Americanism, and surface culture. Luke Parker argues that Nabokov's engagement with the cinema and the dynamics of mass culture more broadly is an art of exile, understood both as litera...

Bad Breed. There's no name more appropriate.FlynnViolence has dogged me all my life.An asshat father, a cruel foster home.Seems I’m following the same path.Only worse.See, I lost someone once, and it hurt me bad.Since then, Drugs and street crime were all I knew.But that all ended the day I got patched.The Breed owned Hardale. It was our town.Until that firefight with the Cobras.We lost five of our brothers.

Sometimes you need a bit of tough love to get where you’re supposed to be …Mia Anderson has been living a life that was chosen for her. But her impending thirtieth birthday is the wake-up call she needed to stop wasting time on all the wrong pursuits. Just as she’s figuring out what she wants to do about it, her beloved grandmother falls ill and Mia drops everything to be with her. What she didn’t expect to find in her grandmother’s tiny mountain town is t...

A fallen rock star, a former fan, and a quest for redemption...Kristoffer “West” Westberg is just out of rehab and ready to reclaim his rock-god status. But when his return to fame is threatened by a former fan turned rock magazine writer — and huge critic of him and his band — West is forced to reckon with the reality that he’ll need to prove himself before earning his redemption.Max Marshall is feisty, a little too honest for her own good, and so...

Holidays should be filled with cheer…CJ Roberts just wants to be a normal girl, have a normal job, normal friends, maybe even a normal boyfriend. Unfortunately, she's about as far from normal as it gets, because she can See the future. And like two sides of a coin, her twin brother, Matt, can See the past. Sounds like a neat party trick, right? Actually, it's frustrating and sometimes even dangerous. And if the past is any indicator, CJ can't do much to ch...

Never agree to one night only with the grumpy boss.I am perfectly content with my life. I have a loving (albeit nosy and interfering) family, a fulfilling career as an environmental engineer, and I enjoy living in my quirky hometown of Winter Falls.But then Beckett Dempsey is appointed CEO at the company I work at. For reasons I cannot fathom to understand, Beckett believes that I am incompetent. He also thinks I should be at his beck and call twenty-four ...

I may be back in my hometown and down on my luck, but I know better than to fall for Lyric again. Been there. Done that. Have the heartbreak to show for it.When my business and apartment burn down, there’s only one thing I can do – return to my hometown of Winter Falls with my tail tucked between my legs.I won’t be here long, though. As soon as the insurance company decides I didn’t start the fire – one little accidental fire to get out of a math test does ...

Have you heard the one about the workaholic who decides she deserves a night of fun with a sexy stranger? It’s supposed to be a short story. Except one night of fun changes everything.Owning and operating a bed and breakfast doesn’t leave me much time for men. Especially not men who aren’t from Winter Falls. Out-of-towners can’t be trusted. Trust me. I have the scars to prove it.Then Cole Hawkins saunters into the Inn on Main. One look at him and I light my rulebook about m...

Give Maverick Langston, the biggest romantic comedy movie star in the world, another chance to break my heart? No way. Not happening.I’m such an idiot. I thought Maverick was serious when he whispered sweet nothings in my ear. He talked me right out of my pants and straight into his bed.And when I woke up the next morning, he was gone. Lesson learned. No more listening or speaking to Maverick – regardless of whether he’s the owner of the wildlife r...

I am NOT Rowan’s little sister. And I will do everything in my power to prove otherwise. But I swear breaking my ankle, so I could live with him while I recover was not part of the plan. Honestly.I have loved Rowan since I was sixteen and he rushed in like my knight in shining football pads to save me from a bully. Now that I’m back in Winter Falls after graduating college, it’s time for me to make him mine.There’s only one problem. Rowan sees me a...

Two steamy fated love psychic suspense romances, now together with bonus epilogue…Last Kiss Under the MistletoeCJ Roberts has spent her life hiding her ability to See the future — a gift that's more curse than blessing. But when she falls for Drew Davies, a talented chef with no patience for mysteries, a horrifying vision forces her to choose: reveal her secret to save his life, or lose him forever. As danger closes in and the holidays app...

Four women. One mountain town. Four different routes to the same discovery.Tough LoveMia has spent five years as a divorce lawyer at her father's firm, watching people who once promised each other forever fight over everything. Then her parents pull her off her first vacation in eight years to look after her grandmother's cabin up the mountain. Gran turns out to be nowhere near as frail as advertised, and remarkably resour...