Her boyfriend dares her to leave. This time, Natalie Reed has a flight booked.After three years of infidelity and apologies she always ends up making, Natalie takes a promotion in Boston and leaves Ryan Mercer in New York. She wants a future with someone she can trust—and a career she won't have to make smaller to keep him.Ethan Vale, the new president of her office, looks like a promising choice. He's handsome, attentive, and takes her work seriously. Nata...

Written by two experts in the field of cognitive behavioral therapy—the best tested set of practices for alleviating stress and anxiety—these daily meditations invite you to find contentment, peace, and happiness in place of worry and fear.Each day’s reading reveals how the powerful tool of mindfulness can help you to become more grounded, energized, motivated, and satisfied with your life. You’ll discover in these pages how to be attentive and open to the present ...

Some churches save souls.Others bury secrets.Arielle James has spent her entire life inside New Hope Cathedral on Goffe Street. She knows the choir rehearsals, the prayer circles, the midnight revivals—and the silence that follows whenever young women suddenly disappear from the congregation.When her cousin Naomi vanishes after Sunday service and blood is discovered beneath the church pulpit, Arielle begins uncovering terrifying secrets hidden behind ministry walls,...

The dead were supposed to stay silent.Monique Carter has spent her entire life around death. As a licensed embalmer working for her family's respected funeral home, she knows how to restore bodies, comfort grieving families, and keep emotions separate from business.But when a young woman arrives after midnight with bruises around her wrists, falsified paperwork, and no official identity, Monique realizes something horrifying:The girl was never supposed to wake up.

Everybody in New Haven knew the story. A Yale student vanished after a night out.Police called it voluntary. The city moved on. Zuri Bennett knew better, because she saw the girl the night she disappeared.What begins as a quiet obsession quickly turns into something far more dangerous when anonymous messages, erased footage and long-buried secrets pull Zuri into the darkest corners of New Haven. The deeper she digs, the more she uncovers a hidden world of powerful men, missin...

Sometimes, you fall for the one person you can't have...Royals. Murder. Secret babies. Filthy, forbidden love.Escape to Sierran, an island kingdom where each royal has something to hide. And as fate would have it, they end up falling for the one person they can't have. With a serial killer on the loose and hearts racing with the rush of passion, only time will tell if their love is written in the stars.Book 1:A steamy night ...

Thai-American executive Nira Vong doesn't take time off. She takes problems apart.When her board ships her to a remote Highland stonehouse for a forty-eight-hour leadership isolation brief, she treats the whole thing as an inconvenience with better fog. No signal. No assistant. One locked door. And a kilted Scottish contractor who watches the walls as if the walls might answer back.Declan MacLeod is paid to keep guests inside the weather. He's not paid to explain the howls ...

Since Duck Prints Press was founded in January 2021, we have published over 200 stand-alone short stories by dozens of authors. Most of these short stories are available for purchase individually from our webstore or are only available to people who back our Patreon... until now! With Duxxx in a Row: A Curated Collection of Explicit Stories, we dip into our vault, anthologizing explicit imprint stories we published from 2021 to 2023 into an all-new collection of 19 stories as sexy, diverse...

Since Duck Prints Press was founded in January 2021, we have published over 200 stand-alone short stories by dozens of authors. Most of these short stories are available for purchase individually from our webstore or are only available to people who back our Patreon... until now! With Duxxx in a Row: A Curated Collection of Explicit Stories, we dip into our vault, anthologizing explicit imprint stories we published from 2021 to 2023 into an all-new collection of 19 stories as sexy, diverse...

Three years into a marriage her husband has never consummated, Nora Vale is done being the replacement bride.Her sister fled the alliance meant to save the Bennett family empire, leaving twenty-year-old Nora to marry Adrian Vale—the ruthless billionaire who refuses to touch her, explain himself, or grant her a divorce. If pride is the only thing he feels, Nora knows exactly how to wound it: invent a lover, stage the evidence, and let an anonymous man ask Adrian to ...

Frost is her secret. Fire is his inheritance. The ancient Ember binds them before either can escape.Mira Thornvale has survived exile by hiding her frost magic and living under a borrowed name. Kael Ashrow crosses a hostile border carrying forbidden flame and one desperate purpose: discover whether the legendary Winter Rite can save the sister he refuses to lose.When the ritual awakens an ancient power beneath a frozen lake, Mira and Kael are fused by an impossible soul bon...

Nikolai sealed himself into the crumbling underground research facility of Eastern Europe and called it survival. No predators inside. No people. No complications.Then he finds Elena scavenging the same concrete tomb.She's a Latin American botanist, resourceful and quietly competent, carrying the last viable seeds of a dead world in a bag she guards like it's the only thing left worth protecting. It might be. Outside, a massive T-Rex is already tracking movement around the ...