Stacey Davenport fights back against a regime that is quickly reducing women to concubinage in dystopian Kansas. Even as a motorcycle gang, deputized as religious police, rounds up the designated women, Stacey starts a political campaign to overthrow the regime. But Stacey's initial victory does not really change the status quo on the ground in certain parts of Kansas. Now, while Stacey fights in the legislature for the legal right to keep her unborn baby girl, her sister must risk her lif...

In the early days of video games, spatial awareness was limited to exactly what was on the screen. If an enemy was off-screen, it didn't exist until it killed you. Then, arcade classics like 'Defender' introduced a revolutionary concept: a crude, glowing radar at the top of the screen. This tiny UI element, which evolved into the modern mini-map, fundamentally changed how human beings process virtual space and navigate digital worlds. This deep dive into game design architecture explores t...

These linked essays of personal and cultural critique include meditations on home and childhood, love and sex, art and literature, parenting and self-destruction, on the city and on death. Walton constantly slips through and between memory's tenuous folds: "that never happened, exactly, but it's certainly not a lie." Witty, candid, defying category, dogma, and expectation, Unsavory Thoughts is a bold self-portrait in an inscrutable landscape: lyric, profound, tragic, hilarious, ab...

Kevin Mallory is a Customer Assistance Representative for a cable company. He keeps his customers on hold, his supervisor on the run and his female nemesis on ice, but a new friend just might change his perspective.Lilly has supported herself since high school with just a little help from her only living relative, her alcoholic older brother. She runs a small non-profit housing agency while McFadden, her supervisor and director of the agency, travels around the cou...

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his model and wife Christine and their deformed child Jacques - is sacrificed on the altar...

Still mourning the baby she gave away a year before – and feeling rejected by the same church people who had so cheerfully arranged that adoption – sixteen-year-old Diane seems to find a supportive friend in her gynecologist, Dr. Zeus. Diane is intelligent and bold but often leaps before she looks, and now she questions why he has to examine her so often, and why he prescribes her so many drugs.The state medical board also has suspicions about Dr. Zeus, but the official inquiry inc...

In part one a cat-loving married couple are asked for advice on how to rid a feral colony of cats from under a storage trailer at a resort hotel. They decide to take on the task themselves. They spend the next three months on a quest which results in them capturing 23 cats and finding homes for 20 of them. To help understand their desire to undertake the quest, part two retraces the experiences they had with their own “fur persons” during a 40-year marriage. Stories range from the tale of ...

In this dark and intriguing paranormal romance from New York Times bestselling author Larissa Ione, a forbidden romance turns deadly when a slayer is tasked with killing the demon who saved her life.In a place where ecstasy can cost you your life . . .She's a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure-but fears it will always be denied her. Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon, makes her b...

Featuring stories by SHANNON K. BUTCHER * RACHEL CAINE * LUCIENNE DIVER * CHRIS MARIE GREEN * CHRISTINA HENRY * FAITH HUNTER * CHLOE NEILL * KALAYNA PRICE * ROB THURMANNew York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine has modern-day potions witches Holly and Andrew facing off against a firebrand politician who wears literally killer boots in a Texas-sized rodeo of trouble.Boot-loving Cadogan vampire Lindsey must team up with off-again, on-again vampire partne...

From Bestselling Author, Lexy Timms, comes a billionaire romance murder mystery that'll send your heart racing.Rachel Evans reluctantly steps in to become the vice president of her family’s company, Syco Pharmaceuticals when her father is murdered. After his death, and a sudden rise in billionaire’s being murdered, Rachel begins to suspect everyone, as does the lead detective assigned to the case.Detective Adrien Deluca and his partner, Chase Hunters, can’t seem to...

Vale Wakefield is a spectacular doctor, but Faith Fogarty knows his ‘for ever' factor is nil – and he'll always go for designer-clad socialites rather than colleagues in unflattering scrubs! She's spent months fighting her attraction, but now, facing a weekend as Vale's date – to a society wedding!– it's time Faith took a few risks with the delicious doctor…

WARRIOR GODDESSCherish is known for a cold, brutal, pitiless demeanor. She learned those traits while she’d lived – a penniless orphan in a cruel world. Born illegitimate. Her presence barely tolerated in life. Vampirism set her free. Gave her value. Nobody knows the soft heart she keeps hidden behind her carefully crafted personae. Protected. Safe. No one will ever find out. But then fate sends the ultimate problem…RAPTOR SPECIALISTDoctor Samson Reid is a late bloo...