From award-winning author Kiki Petrosino comes a poignant exploration of identity, heritage and belonging for readers of Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong, Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral and Seamus Heaney’s NorthThrough vivid imagery and spare, precise verse, Kiki Petrosino’s Perfect Italian examines the complexities of cultural inhe...

To vanquish the increasingly powerful Demon Lord, divine revelation ordained a party of heroes, each blessed with a unique power. That spelled trouble for Flum Apricot, a total weakling of a girl who has no idea what her power of "Reversal" even does. Betrayed and left behind with a wretched slave trader who enjoys nothing more than seeing his merchandise fight for their lives, Flum thinks all hope is lost--until she gets her hand on a massive, cursed sword. Finally, after so many years, s...

They're loving and loyal--at least when he's around. But when he's not, the only thing they're loyal to is their own insatiable desires.This collection contains the following erotic stories:The HouseguestWhat do you do when a unicorn comes to visit? You take it for a ride, of course--or at least you try to.That's exactly what Fiona thought when a 26-year-old virgin came to stay at her house for a couple of days. Sure Daniel was her son's bes...

A good girl with a broken heart walks into a bar, ready for revenge.Maddy has dumped her cheating fiancé, but she's still stuck in a new city with a lonely, aching heart. What better way to get over a cheating fiancé than to get a little wild? She thinks that margaritas and a one night stand will cheer her up.But the bartender knows better: Michael can see that Maddy deserves more than a hook-up with some jerk. He knows just the thing to get her over her heartbreak and her ...

Flum Apricot was never meant to be a hero. Despite zero stats across the board and a power she can't even use, she somehow finds herself included in a party of heroes. But Flum's life hits rock bottom when the party's renowned sage, Jean Inteige, decides that the useless girl is dead weight, and arranges to have her sold into slavery. Tossed to monsters to be feasted upon for her master's entertainment, Flum makes the desperate choice to reach for a cursed weapon...and something new awaken...

Francis loves everything about Christmas in New York--the snow, the beautifully adorned trees, the cheery disposition that covers the city like a warm, cozy blanket. But it's her annual holiday hook ups that she always looks forward to the most.Just when Francis thinks that her ho, ho, hot holidays can't get any better, she has an encounter with a mysterious stranger in a department store that takes her Christmas ritual to a whole new level.From the Author:...

The next job won’t be so easy for two sibling assassins or for two diamond thieves in this street lit anthology featuring two bestselling authors.NINE LIVESKIKI SWINSONWild-card Aiden. Dead-shot Ava. Efficient, fast, and brutal, this notorious brother-sister hit team grew up abused, unwanted—and in lethal tune with each other. Killing nine targets in ten days will be their biggest score yet. But as Ava sets up their...

It’s the thrilling, gritty tale fans of superstar Kiki Swinson’s nationally bestselling urban lit novels have been waiting for—the story of how Kira, an impressionable teen, emerges from poverty to become the fierce, indomitable criminal known as Wifey. But learning the streets has a cost that could break her faster than make her . . .Growing up in a housing project in Portsmouth, Virginia’s poorest neighborhood, 18-year-old Kira is tired of living with constant vi...

GOING ONCE . . .Identity theft mastermind Lauren Kelly has always had a taste for the finer things. With her lover and accomplice, Matt Connors, by her side, there’s nothing she can’t buy or steal. But she’s not the only one…GOING TWICE . . .When their partner, Yancy, stumbles onto a tycoon’s multi-million dollar bank account, Lauren expects the latest scam will go smoothly—until she discovers Matt and Yancy are planning the ultimate ...

Nicole is in a lousy mood. She's had a tiring day at work; expensive car trouble has forced her to take a hot, crowded bus home; and she's not even sure she wants to go home anyway, since she's been fighting with her husband Matt, with whom she's been trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child for a couple of years. So when the man behind her on the bus starts to fondle her, it seems like it ought to be the crowning indignity of an awful day. Instead she finds herself growing increasingly a...

Shy, mousy Sakura Akutsu finds it difficult to breathe in public, much less speak for herself. She makes do by confining her adventures in creativity to the pages of her notebook-until the brash, outgoing new transfer student Tsubame gets her hands on it, that is. The two secretly share the stories Sakura spins, but that secret soon proves too big to keep, and Tsubame whisks Sakura away on an entirely different type of adventure…to start their very own drama club! All the world's a stage, ...

A New York Times BestsellerThe Disney Fairies star in a magical all-new early chapter book series for kids ages 6 to 10—The Never Girls!Kate craves adventure and excitement.Mia loves dresses, roses, and anything beautiful.Lainey dreams of talking to animals.Gabby believes in fairies more than anyone.In a blink of an eye, these four best friends all get their biggest wish—they’re whisked off to Never Land, home to Tinker Bell and...