Recent years have seen a panic over the future of mainstream film. Yet film culture is at its most vital on the margins, where the moving image meets visual art, documentary brushes up against experimentalism, and curators are reshaping established histories. Bringing together a decade of criticism, The Edges of Cinema roams across an array of styles to take account of how some of the most important contemporary filmmakers are engaging the world.Erika Balsom—a leading scho...

She has him just where she wants him...Joelle Sommers is very good at her job as a PI and bail recovery agent, but she’s definitely out of her element when she arrests sexy businessman Dean Colter in a case of mistaken identity. Because unlike her usual fugitives, Dean is cooperative, accommodating, and hot as sin . . . and not at all guilty as charged. But this bad boy isn’t so innocent either, and she finds it increasingly hard to resist his seductive ch...

One invitation. One irresistible protector. One temptation that could change my life forever.I accepted an invitation to The Players Club because I wanted a single night of adventure. Then I met Logan Cruz. Confident, intense, and impossible to ignore, he looks at me like I’m the only woman in the room. What begins as a thrilling encounter quickly becomes something far more complicated…because the connection between us refuses to fade once the night is over.

One reckless night... and four words that changed everything.I’d spent my entire life avoiding one thing—commitment. I'd watched love destroy my family, shatter hearts, and leave nothing but broken promises behind. Relationships came with too many risks, so I poured everything I had into my career instead. It was the one place I knew I couldn't fail.Then Daisy Parker broke every rule I'd ever made. She was sweet, beautiful, completely off-limits... and the ...

Sexy bedroom games… and a second chance at desireAfter nearly twenty years of marriage, I’m still hopelessly in love with my husband. He’s confident, charming, and the only man who can still make my heart race with a single look. Now that our sons are grown and we finally have the house to ourselves again, I realize something important.I want more from my marriage. Not just the safe, familiar love we’ve always shared, but the powerful connection I’ve glimps...

When the world's most impossible boss meets the one chef who refuses to be fired, it turns his carefully controlled life into total chaos.Alexander Rooke doesn't do imperfect. Not in his boardroom, not in his billion-dollar empire, and certainly not on his dinner plate — which is why he's fired thirty-six chefs in six months for crimes ranging from "over-seasoning" to "emotional instability in a lasagna." Enter Pepper Moore: self-taught, sharp-tongued, and constitutionally incapabl...

She needs a sinner, not a saint. Good thing he’s a bit of both…Clay Kincaid isn’t a forever guy. Which is why he should’ve stayed away from the guileless good girl who showed up at his bar in need of a rescue. But he didn’t, and things got…dirty. Rough. Filthy. And way more complicated than his sweet little damsel in distress deserved…Samantha Jamieson is tired of being a dutiful heiress. She’s ready to live. Running away from the loveless marriage...

A former Marine and Las Vegas vice cop, Nathan Fox has seen it all and then some. Heading up security for the Onyx Casino is tame compared to his dark past, but it's not his only job. Working for the Reliance Group is his real passion project. His current case: a missing woman. His mission: to find her. Easy enough, until he finds himself tangled up with sexy Nicole Hutton, a stubborn—and stunning—journalist who's nosed her way into his investigation . . . and into his dirty, erotic fantas...

A debt repaid . . . in the form of her surrender.I had spent my entire life building an empire for one purpose—to destroy the man who had stolen everything from me. Power. Wealth. Control. Every ruthless decision I made brought me one step closer to revenge against the man responsible for my parents' deaths. I thought I had accounted for every possibility.I never expected his daughter to walk through my door and offer herself in payment for her father's deb...

These poems are deeply generous to the reader, serious and playful, alchemizing and liberating."—Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful and GoldenrodThe seventh collection by award-winning poet Erika Meitner, Assembled Audience explores what it means to be human in an increasingly precarious world.“What does it mean to gather together?” asks this fervent, frank collection. In these poems, peop...

Imagine waking up each year with an extra 1,000 hours to spend however you choose.The Gift of Time reframes artificial intelligence not as an existential threat, but as a powerful tool that expands human capability. Rather than focusing on what AI might take away, Erika Debrah Reed asks a different question: what will people do with the knowledge, opportunity, and time these systems create?Placing this moment within humanity's long effort ...

Chase Noble always seemed unattainable…until one night with him at the Players Club changed everything.I’ve wanted Chase for years, but much to my frustration, he’s always considered me off limits. When I walk into the Players Club with one goal in mind, to find a man who will give me what I need, it’s the maddeningly dominant, possessive (and I soon discover, pierced) Chase who refuses to allow any other man to touch me. He gives me a night I’ll never forget, a ta...