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 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 ...

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...

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.

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...

What happens in Vegas doesn’t have to stay in Vegas…right?Mason Kincaid has only ever committed to one woman, and that’s his best friend. But he had no intention of screwing up the most important relationship in his life with something as trivial as sex…no matter how much he wanted to. Until one hot, dirty night ruined everything…Unrequited love sucks. Katrina Sands learned that the hard way. All she wanted was one night to let loose and forget how long she...

He’s a rock-solid relationship guy. No one-night stands. Except that one.But once was all it took to change everything…Connor Prescott had the most intense night of his life in a snowed-in airport with a total stranger. When he woke up the next day, he wanted more. He wanted everything. Too bad she’d bailed and hadn’t even left him her last name. He’d left something with her, though. He just didn’t know it yet…To say Katie Kaswell h...

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...

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...

The Book Boyfriend Series Complete Collection includes the following books:BIG SHOTNothing is more satisfying than bringing a big shot to his knees…Wes Sinclair can have any woman he wants. So, the hot, dirty fantasies he’s having about his best friend’s off-limits sister—the one who keeps stealing his clients and seems immune to his charms—are driving him nuts. Which might explain why he proposed the bet that took such an ...