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Hunted by the Empire and ordered to surrender, Alliyanna Kar’Jan chooses a more dangerous path: Erimos. Beneath its deadly desert lies the first fragment of an ancient Key—and trials that will test her, Talak, and Kahlan to their limits. But surviving Erimos is only the beginning. Back at the Imperial Capitol, Alliyanna must face the Senate, defend her name, and claim the future others tried to deny her.

Ash is a nine-hundred-year-old incubus, summoned twice a week by people who want something. That leaves a hundred and sixty-six hours—and lately he wants just one thing: to be expected instead of wanted. So he applies for a job at Costco. No papers, no legal existence since Henry the Second, just a résumé reading "Available immediately." A warm, funny, aching short about a creature of appetite who'd trade eternity for a torn red vest.

Living alone with her young son, Toby, as he'd progressed through puberty, Suzanne had understood his natural curiosity about her body, even teasing him a little. Then, when he was a bit older, she'd gently encouraged him to turn his attention to girls his own age. But when she'd first met one of his new girlfriends, Tessa, Suzanne had been shocked by the intensity of the attraction she felt toward her. It could have ended there, except that it turned out that Tessa had felt the same way.

It was the middle of the 22nd century and, yes, the World has finally gone crazy and a nuclear war has happened. Now, repopulation is needed.

Budgeting time is always difficult for the legislature. What to cut, what to leave alone, and what to expand? How to make too few dollars cover too many programs? This year was no different in our southern, very conservative state.

When overworked teacher and reluctant baseball coach Collin Braxton returns a student’s forgotten knapsack, a sudden storm strands him with the boy’s attractive grandmother. Bridget is mature, confident and very direct about what she wants—and the private reward she offers may give “playing ball” an entirely new meaning.

A couple who work in same building meet in the toilets for so alone time

The sexual exploits of Cathy and her friend Reena.

In 1855 Alabama, a slave becomes the overseer responsible for the women and children slaves. He controls them and finds a mate in the process.

A railroad hobo discovers obedience and sex at a farm in Wyoming.