A small time thief is friendly with the local superhero. Luckily, he happens to be stealing something that nerfs her powers, just as she gets trapped in front of him.
In the unforgiving frontier town of Dustwater Creek, life is harsh and danger waits around every corner. Young and clever, Lysandra Bale must navigate a world ruled by strength, cunning, and courage. Fierce-willed and unyielding, she faces the trials of the West with intelligence and determination, shaping the people around her and turning even the most difficult circumstances into opportunities to survive and thrive.
A My Changing Life Story If you are anal then don't read it. It is about a man from his teen years on. He tries to do the right thing but considering how fucked up his life is, he doesn't always have the tools to figure out what the right thing is. There is at least one scene with c&b torture but it is brief and not a main part of the story. The story progresses past modern times, so I classified it as sci-fi. Enjoy
Beautiful, blond German village boy Klaus becomes eternally fourteen for hundreds of years when the perpetually thirty vampire baron in the castle above the Bavarian village decides to bed and sink his fangs into him and enslave Klaus into his perpetual service.
A newly arrived fourteen-year-old military academy cadet meets a randy redneck night fisherman in a truck by a lake where the cadet has been dumped, nearly naked, in a hazing ritual.
A haunting story of a German officer who discovers a wounded Russian woman in a ruined village. As compassion replaces hostility, an impossible bond forms between enemies — until a devastating truth shatters it. A gripping tale of war, humanity, and the cruel ironies of fate.