My name is Alex Layton and I'm a soul familiar. What's a soul familiar? Witches and wizards use familiars to enhance their powers. Soul familiars become not only partners with their chosen mates -- we bond with our partners, heart, body, mind, and soul.I've found my soul mate, but to keep him, we face a challenge. Magical combat designed to test our bond and its strength. If we pass, we live happily ever after. If we lose... let's just say I refuse to lose. All we have to deal with...

Refusing to believe loving another man is wrong, these werewolves fight to build their own pack.Male of the Species: Devin Grant is an alpha on a mission. Rejected by his pack, Devin finds himself alone. A chance meeting with fellow outcast Quinn Alexander starts him on the path to forming his own pack. Along the way, he makes an enemy -- the unscrupulous leader of a black arts coven -- and unexpectedly finds his mate, human Ryan Mitchell. With strength and courage, Devin ...

The Orb of Atrios brought them together, but the rest is up to them. If they can face the challenge, two couples will find their way past uncertainty and tears to laughter, joy, and sensual nights filled with soul-shattering sizzle and everlasting love.Chosen of the Orb: Huntress Lira Senn Var is strong, independent, and a far cry from the domestic type of woman who’s satisfied tending hearth and home. Still, she longs for a mate and children of her own. In Talrion Finn Mal she fin...

Tarl Mengs, navigator of the Starship Brizo, never expected his vacation would end with a near crash landing on a backwater planet like Peldar. Resigned to days of boredom while his shuttle is repaired, an unexpected meeting with a cute and sassy Adarian lands Mengs in a world of trouble. It seems Switcher has stolen a prize from a pack of poachers who will do anything to get it back.Stranded and on the run, Mengs and Switcher face life threatening danger to save a species on the v...

For disillusioned artist Jaden Loring, the very idea of a joyful holiday seems ludicrous. Christmas is commercial and crass, and all his friends are on party overload. Jaden's just not interested in their social scene any more. What he needs is something real.Enter Kell -- a dark angel bent on turning Jaden's stagnant existence upside down. Once Jaden knows how it feels to make an angel fall, he'd gladly commit this sin again and again. But things like Christmas magic don't really ...

At Mausoleum, a human freely supplying blood is a nightly occurrence.Phantasmagoric Feast: Anxious to prove himself, a slightly inebriated Toby Heaton decides on a reckless plan. Walking into Mausoleum -- a bar known to be owned and operated by vampires -- he offers his virgin throat to the biggest baddest blood sucker in the place... Too bad his offer falls flat. Taken under handsome bartender De's wing, Toby embarks on a surreal journey fueled by blood...A Feast ...

Almost a century ago Landon Jeffers was on the run from a posse determined to see him dance at the end of a noose when he made a discovery that would change his life forever. Landon’s dreams of desert’s riches morphed into images of moonlit nights, howling wolves and a man whose piercing black eyes turn to fire. A wild man who will tame his heart -- a man named Dark.Over the years legends have taken shape about wild men inhabiting the Grand Canyon -- men who turn into wolves. Now L...

A Sure-Fire Cure: Betrayed by a former lover, veterinarian Dean Conlon knows how dangerous love can be. But his attraction to the handsome horse breeder, Scott Whittaker, is immediate and undeniable.While Dean struggles against his own fears, Scott wages a tempting campaign of seduction. But someone else is in love with Dean and they’ll do whatever it takes, including murder, to claim Dean for their own.New Year’s Fire: Unless Dean finds a way to mend the breach between his...

In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a collection of famous women from history. Soon, Marlene discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it's cracked up to be.An L.A. Theatre...

In April of 2010, British Petroleum gave orders to speed up production on its colossal drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon. Despite the objections of many on the rig, safety measures were ignored or overlooked. On April 20th, the Deepwater Horizon exploded. Eleven men paid the ultimate price and countless thousands who call the Gulf Coast home found their lives irrevocably altered.Includes a conversation with Jim Morris, Executive Editor at The Center for Public Integrity in Washin...

Abby Mann's classic story about the Nuremberg trials, under which German leaders were found guilty of crimes against humanity in 1945 and 1946. Even today, the play remains a shattering indictment of the consequences of unchecked authority and the seductive power of group thought.Includes an audience talkback with Judge Bruce Einhorn, who served at the Justice Department supervising litigation against Nazi war criminals and is currently a professor at Pepperdine University....

Enhanced ebook edition of Macbeth, featuring a full cast audio performance of the play, starring James Marsters as Macbeth and Joanne Whalley as Lady Macbeth. Listen to the play scene-by-scene as you read the text, or listen to the play in its entirety while reading text summaries of each scene.Infamously known as the cursed "Scottish play," Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare's darkest tragedy. When General Macbeth is foretold by three witches that he ...