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Dante Valentine has been through Hell. Literally. Her body shattered and her mind not far behind, she's dumped back into her own world to survive - or not - as a pawn in one of Lucifer's endless games. Unfortunately, he's just messed with the wrong Necromance. And this time she's mad enough to do something about it. This time, the Devil will pay.

Saint City has always been Dante Valentine's home. It's where she grew up, it's where her dead are buried, and it's where she learned to hunt. Now, one call from an old friend will bring her back to investigate a murder too close to home for anyone's comfort. But the one person she trusted has just betrayed her.

The Black Land is a myth: Centuries have passed since that Great Enemy was slain. Yet old fears linger, and on the longest night of the year, people in the South still light ritual bonfires to banish the dark. In her village, this duty falls to Solveig, a girl favored by the gods with powerful fire magic. But when her brother kills a Northern lord’s son during the ritual, it is Sol who faces punishment, by being weregild—part hostage, part guest—in the North for a year and a day.

In the racy sequel to the first in the Shifting Heat series, Violet Woods never imagined wanting to be claimed by an alpha. In fact, despite she and Una Reyes' three-day lockdown in sweat-ridden lust that she can't quite erase from her mind even weeks later, she's none too pleased about the fresh bite of claim. But she learned the hard way that she can't fight biology. In the aftermath, the omega must deal with the consequences and shifting dynamics that come with a displeased pack and an alpha who has no more desire to be mated or tied to the pack than she does.

The service of Britannia is not for the faint of heart - or conscience...Emma Bannon, Sorceress Prime in service to Queen Victrix, has a mission: To find the doctor who has created a powerful new weapon. Her friend, the mentath Archibald Clare, is only too happy to help. It will distract him from pursuing his nemesis, and besides, Clare is not as young as he used to be. A spot of Miss Bannon's excellent hospitality and her diverting company may be just what he needs.

Solveig and her shieldmaiden have finally made it to Waterstone, a fabled city hidden in a world of frost by ancient magic. Shrouded from the Enemy’s gaze, they are safe to rest and regroup—or so they think. Sol suspects their hosts are not as benevolent as they seem. Whispers race through the halls, hinting at self-serving agendas and secret plots. So, as Sol attempts to harness her awakened magic, she must fight for her voice to be heard or risk being used like a pawn in the greater game.

Gargoyle security guard Grayson Lightfoot never celebrates Christmas. It brings back too many bad memories. Besides he's got a job to do—watching over Motham City 24/7 from his rooftop. Maisie doesn't celebrate Christmas either. Orphaned at an early age, she's a sensible human with a mission—to earn enough money to open up a drop-in center for street kids in Motham. So naturally she jumps at a lucrative holiday contract to work as a housekeeper for Grayson.

Judith's a passionate historian with a lust for knowledge. That lust has led her to a very special museum in the sleepy little town of Winslet, Connecticut, where she's about to learn that anything can happen. The museum holds a special secret in the heart of one of its forgotten exhibits that sends Judith on a tailspin journey into the past. Mistaken for the goddess Freyja by the shield maidens and bearing a magically thick, throbbing new weapon, Judith uses her magical gift, quick wits, and her knowledge of history to survive in even the stickiest of situations.

Desperate for a change, Hayden Summers takes a trip to New Orleans for Thanksgiving. Surrounded by the city’s beautiful culture and amazing food, it doesn’t take long for her to become obsessed. However, nothing prepares her for the sexy, tattooed redhead that is Elysia Maynard.

Full moons, beautiful omegas, and knotty futa alphas make for a messy good time...In this hot and steamy erotic short set in the omegaverse, Luna isn’t interested in being anyone’s omega. Especially not the cocky alpha, Jade, who’s dead set on claiming her. The sudden onset of a storm traps them together at the height of the full moon when Luna’s heat is at its highest. It's extremely hard for Jade to resist her slippery charms, and with every passing second in Jade's presence Luna is desperate to be stretched, filled, and owned in the way that only her true alpha can.

One evening of intense heat will either make or break them....

As far as first times go? A steamy encounter with futanari aliens definitely counts as the best. Bubbles O’ Brien is a misanthropic geek who spends most of her time at work, and when she isn’t working, she’s seeking a little self gratification from her very distracting needs. She likes to be alone, write racy erotica, and then think about it while she...well, you know. Sure, she could get a date on Tinder, but then again, she doesn’t like people. Why can’t she just have a super hot alien lover? Oh yeah, because they don’t exist. Or so she thinks.

Emma Bannon, forensic sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. It doesn't help much that they barely tolerate each other, or that Bannon's Shield, Mikal, might just be a traitor himself. Or that the conspiracy killing registered mentaths and sorcerers alike will just as likely kill them as seduce them into treachery toward their Queen.

Falling in love with the teenage Antichrist is dangerous, in this short story from New York Times best-selling author Lilith Saintcrow.

Sorcery. Treason. Madness. And, of course, murder most foul...A shattering accident places Archibald Clare, mentath in the service of Britannia, in the care of Emma Bannon, sorceress Prime. Clare needs a measure of calm to repair his faculties of Logic and Reason. Without them, he is not his best. At all. Unfortunately, calm and rest will not be found. There is a killer hiding in the sorcerous steam-hells of Londinium, murdering poor women of a certain reputation. Once more Emma Bannon is pressed into service; once more Archibald Clare is determined to aid her.

Jill Kismet is back from the grave in this explosive conclusion to Lilith Saintcrow's fantasy series. She wakes up in her own grave. She doesn't know who put her there, she doesn't know where she is, and she has no friends or family. She only knows two things: She has a job to do - cleansing the night of evil. And she knows her name - Jill Kismet.

History is written by the victors; but when you've been fighting your fellow patriots, your own brothers and sisters, does anyone really win? A harrowing gut-punch of a novel, Afterwar tells the story of a dark future where America has been devastated by a second civil war. As the fighting draws to a close, the camps are liberated, the fascist regime crumbles and the work of rebuilding begins. But can a population that's spent years divided and hell-bent on victory at any cost ever be truly reunited?

Nat Drozdova has crossed half the continent in search of the stolen Dead God’s Heart, the only thing powerful enough to trade for her beautiful, voracious, dying mother’s life. Yet now she knows the secret of her own birth—and that she’s been lied to all her young life. The road to the Heart ends at the Salt-Black Tree, but to find it Nat must pay a deadly price. Pursued by mouthless shadows hungry for the blood of new divinity as well as the razor-wielding god of thieves, Nat is on her own.

Natasha Drozdova is desperate to save a life. Doctors can do little for her cancer-ridden mother, who insists there is only one cure—and that Nat must visit a skyscraper in Manhattan to get it. Amid a snow-locked city, inside a sleek glass-walled office, Nat makes her plea and is whisked into a terrifying new world. For the skyscraper holds a hungry winter goddess who has the power to cure her mother…if Nat finds a stolen object of great power. Now Nat must travel with a razor-wielding assassin across an American continent brimming with terror, wonder, and hungry divinities.

Reeling from a sudden divorce after her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Gianna Mills tries to put the pieces of her life back together. She’s got a new place, now she just needs to get under someone to get over her ex. After all, she may be approaching middle aged, but she’s as hot and amorous as ever, and her ex-husband shouldn’t get to have all the fun.