She wanted a love that would last. He belonged to a world where nothing did.Katie Scott may look like a flower child, but beneath the bohemian fringe beats the heart of a woman craving something simple and lasting: love, marriage, and a family of her own. Disillusioned by the dark side of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury scene, she heads to Swinging London determined to build the kind of life the Summer of Love promised but never delivered.British guitar lege...

Rhett Davis thought loving Rhys James would be worth anything. She just didn't expect it to cost her everything.While Rhys finishes another tour with Illicit, Rhett is building their future. But loving him means living with a man who's spent nearly thirty years getting his own way. Rhys doesn't mean to put her second, he just doesn't see it. Until it's too late.Walking away from him is the hardest thing Rhett has ever done. Losing her is the only thing strong enough to brin...

"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for eternity, but no poet of the Greco-Roman world has had a deeper or more lasting impact on subsequent literature and art than he can claim. In the present day no Greek or Roman poet is as accessible, to artists, writers, or ...

I ran from my past, then slept with the one wolf who could destroy me.He definitely wasn't supposed to save me.But the storm hit, the ground split, and suddenly he was there—all heat, fury, and a bond I never saw coming.He's loyal to the pack that hates me.The same one I once betrayed.But when he touches me, I forget why I should run.When he looks at me, I feel like more than just a weapon.I let him in—once.And it ruined e...

Hailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don’t Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected. More than two decades after its original release, the film has become a lightning rod for contemporary debates about the representation of trans lives and deaths on screen.Representational possibilities for trans people have changed dramatically sinc...

Hailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don’t Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected. More than two decades after its original release, the film has become a lightning rod for contemporary debates about the representation of trans lives and deaths on screen.Representational possibilities for trans people have changed dramatically sinc...

Melanie Vandergriff has spent her whole life sticking to the plan, and as her fiftieth birthday approaches, she has everything she ever wanted.Almost.She's never had a rock star.After one unforgettable backstage encounter with Drew Cooper, rhythm guitarist for Illicit, Mel suddenly understands the appeal. Drew is sexy, charming, and impossible to resist, and what starts as a little fun quickly becomes something much deeper.With Illicit on hiatus, Drew is foc...

Recently widowed and newly jobless, forty-two-year-old Rhett Davis (and yes, she's heard all the jokes about her name) has a choice. Stay in her small Texas town where she never quite belonged or reinvent herself in Dallas with a new car, a new look, and a second chance at life.She's definitely choosing Dallas.Falling in love again? Not on the agenda. Not even a little. But then her upstairs neighbor turns out to be Rhys James—devastatingly sexy, very single, and the lead s...

The Big Book of Ghost Stories: 140 Horror Novels & Short Story Collections maps the ghostly imagination across the Gothic, Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian, and modern traditions. Its capacious selection ranges from ancestral curses, haunted houses, doubles, revenants, and spectral revenge to psychologically ambiguous apparitions and folkloric visitations. Novels and short fiction mingle with fairy-tale, sensation, decadent, imperial, and supernatural-investigation modes, revealing how the g...

Tales of Lost Souls: 400+ Ghost Stories in One Collection maps the extraordinary breadth of supernatural fiction from Gothic romance to psychological horror, antiquarian terror, folkloric fantasy, and modern ghostly unease. Its vast assembly moves through ruined estates, cursed objects, spectral visitations, doubles, revenants, and haunted domestic spaces, demonstrating how the ghost story continually adapts to changing fears. Alongside classic Gothic atmospheres, readers encounter tales o...