Captain Reave raped and bred his way across half a coast and never wondered what he left behind. She knows what he left. It's her. She cuts her hair, binds herself flat, and signs aboard his black ship as a cabin boy, to look the father who made her in the eye, once. But a hundred men and no walls keep no secret long, and the dread captain keeps the best plunder for himself. He'll never know whose she is. She came to find the monster who made her. She never reckoned on becoming one.
A saintly yoga wife, her burned-out "nice guy" husband, and a creepy basement janitor slip into one messed-up loop of lust, guilt and voyeurism. This isn’t about cheating, it’s about something worse: when you suddenly realize it turns you on to see your perfect little world get dragged through the mud – and you don’t want it to stop.
On his eighteenth birthday, Owen Vey learns that his female-led family has built its identity around a coercive sexual tradition—and expects him to submit to it. When his aunt’s violent abuse sends him to the hospital, Owen escapes into an uncertain world without documents, education, or a home. With help from strangers, he fights for legal independence, exposes the family’s secrets, and builds a future of his own.
After Mexico, Joe can't face his best friend, haunted by a secret with his best friend's daughter, Denise. Now he's dodging every invitation. (continuation from "Family Trip in Mexico")
His job is demanding, the kind that does not clock out when he does. It comes through the door with him: the tension in his shoulders, the faraway look, the sense that he is still at the office even when he is sitting across from her. She notices. She worries. She loves him enough to want the man who used to leave work at work, not the exhausted version who cannot switch off. So she starts looking for a way to help him. A caring wife, willing to do whatever it takes to bring him back to her.
Sci-fi/alien-trial novel, ~29 chapters, first-person unnamed narrator (grieving widower who lost his wife and daughter). Recruited through escalating psychological trials (a kill-or-die test, sensory deprivation, endurance), he bonds with fellow recruits Alice, Nate, Shivam, Morgan, Sasha, and Lanka before being sent to an alien world on a labyrinth mission of survival.
A The Void series Story 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.