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...

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...

Fake engagements only work if both parties remember they’re supposed to be faking it…Damsels in distress don’t interest Max Sterling. But that didn’t stop him from posing as his gorgeous client’s fiancé when she needed him. Having a fake girlfriend might keep his momma off his back about his bachelor status, too. It was a win-win. Until he started developing very real feelings and ruined everything…Hailey Ellison had her reasons for creating an imaginary fi...

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...

These poems are deeply generous to the reader, serious and playful, alchemizing and liberating."—Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful and GoldenrodThe seventh collection by award-winning poet Erika Meitner, Assembled Audience explores what it means to be human in an increasingly precarious world.“What does it mean to gather together?” asks this fervent, frank collection. In these poems, peop...

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 ...

Chase Noble always seemed unattainable…until one night with him at the Players Club changed everything.I’ve wanted Chase for years, but much to my frustration, he’s always considered me off limits. When I walk into the Players Club with one goal in mind, to find a man who will give me what I need, it’s the maddeningly dominant, possessive (and I soon discover, pierced) Chase who refuses to allow any other man to touch me. He gives me a night I’ll never forget, a ta...

A bold look at the unexpected ways porn shapes our lives, with a feminist defense, drawn from Erika Lust’s decades in adult filmmaking, that argues for a more ethical porn that can transform sexual politicsFor more than two decades, Erika Lust has been pushing back against shame and stereotypes, building a new kind of adult cinema—one that is feminist, ethical, and deeply human. In Lust: Pleasure, Performance, Power, she tells the story of how a shy “good ...

¿Y Yo También? brings together a diverse range of Latina voices to address the under-representation of Latinx voices in the #MeToo movement and discussions of sexual violence. Through scholarly analysis of literature, media, podcasting, film, art, and testimonio alongside memoir, poetry, a short play, and personal essays, the authors address varied Latina experiences of sexual assault and harassment. These authors grapple with these traumas alongside their intersectional contexts,...

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...

“Call it *The Hunger Games of Thrones*. Erika Johansen’s debut novel is a genre mashup: medieval fantasy meets dystopian future. . . . The setting, combined with Johansen’s deft hand with character and plotting, really does work. . . . An addictive and enjoyable adventure. . . . The Tear is just as easy to get sucked into as Westeros or Hogwarts or Panem.” —USA Today**Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a youn...