A troubled mother commits an unspeakable act to banish the demon that lurks in her root cellar. Ghosts from the past won’t release their hold on a young woman. A girl in search of a new job as a nanny finds herself in charge of a mysterious package that requires much more care than any child. Lady Bits collects sixteen tales from Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson award nominated author Kate Jonez that explores the horror nestled in the female heart. Vividly realized protagonists engage with an often-hostile world to deliver justice, lower a vengeance hammer, or to simply revel in evil. Prepare to be unsettled, disturbed, and terrified.
Collector's Edition (color interior): makes a great gift! Approachable and highly readable, Lady Bits offers empowering health information and simple tools to elevate your well-being and tap into your sensuality. Part women's health text, part sex manual, and part chatting over a glass of wine with your best friend, Lady Bits is a comprehensive guide that will help you understand, care for, and LOVE your unique female body. With two free digital workouts and a 14-Day Action Guide, the information found in this program is practical and eye-opening - ideal for women of all ages.
The lives of David, wealthy and popular but still lonely, and Charlie, a soulful outsider, intersect when Rose, the female Companion bot David's parents buy to treat his dissociative disorder, forms a bond with Charlie.
"Welcome to Barrie, Ontario, the city of a new breed of wizards. My daddy can walk through doors that aren't there! Through doors, we walked through enchanted doors for our eyes only." Shelby is the main character. She did not have a clue that she was a wizard, a shape-shifter. A wizard with attitude; go, girl, go! A crown of flowers, an enchanted dress, a Grim Stone around her neck, and gifts from the Say-Waze. They were on a mission to save the Umbrella people, cursed by an evil witch. A five-hundred-year-old curse, as We-walker. She was taking Lucas's hand, a half-mouse and half-man, like a creator, falling in love as a true love story. The enchanted castle, hearing Tear-Mina's cries, entombed in a crystal ball with a witch. Shelby found the power, the strength, and the courage deep inside her heart. Becoming the queen of time. Riding a Lamar-Light across the waves of fire and ash of time. On a magical quest, finding the Gleamer child to which it started. Entombing that witch with the power of children's happy thoughts. Breaking the curse. Through an enchanted door as Bits. Into the realm of the Luckiest House as the ghost of time. Gifted children, a witch, an epic battle for power. Grimsson fire consuming them all. Imprisoning that witch in a fifty-year loop, Through a third enchanted door into a battle between the Tappets, Umbrella people, Shelby, We-Walker, Bits, O-Miss. Imprisoning her mother's three evil sisters, revealing the true story--Daddy!
Jane Whitman finds herself a young, widowed empty nester as her youngest child leaves for college. Having spent the three years since her husband’s death focusing primarily on single parenthood and rebuilding her life as a mother and artist, Jane’s world is knocked askew by a chance meeting with handsome stranger, Rob Daniels. Jane’s visceral reaction to Rob reawakens the physical desires that had been dormant since the death of her husband. While Jane is mesmerized by Rob’s intellect, charm, and wit, she is also reluctant to pursue a relationship given that her oldest child has gone missing, another suburban casualty of the opioid epidemic that gripped him in the wake of his father’s death. With her complicated family situation and crippling anxieties about learning to love again, Jane tentatively allows herself to be seduced while keeping the realities of her son’s problem from Rob. When Jane finally accepts Rob’s intentions for a long term relationship, she admits to him that loving her may be more of a complex matter than he is ready for. Jane begins to ease into the warmth of Rob's love, only to find that Rob may have some secrets of his own...
An anthology of short stories selected to provide you with a brief escape from where you find yourself right now. Each will allow you to leave this reality and take a quick trip into a different one. Have no fear. It’s a nice place. Even better, they know you there. Words Ever Unspoken Years have passed since Carson and Melissa broke up. Even though time has passed, both still dwell on the last time the two were together. Was that night a way of marking the end of their relationship, or was it a desperate attempt on both their parts to prevent their breakup from being permanent? Neither of them said a word during that last time together. Will either of them be able to find the words to express what is going on inside their minds and hearts today? It's a Surreal Thing He was deep into that summer between being a kid and being a teenager. She was the kind of woman that was the building block of a young man’s fantasies. As he sat there alone, she walked up behind him unnoticed and for a brief moment became the center of his universe when she made a simple request… a swig of his Coke. Just Down from Rimpy’s Bait Shop Peter’s grandfather brought him to live on his farm during his most turbulent years. As the man he loves succumbs to the deterioration of age, Peter is increasingly frustrated as he is forced to deal with the aging man’s belligerent and sometimes dangerous behavior. Fertilizing a section of the lawn should be a simple chore, especially when there are explicit directions. But then again, maybe not. A Scents of the Virus A sleepless night filled with the boredom of the COVID19 lockdown, a distracting ad on the Internet, and a credit card leads to the purchase of a Hollywood star’s latest vanity project: A candle with a unique scent. The first time Munro smells it, he begins to recover a memory. It is a memory he suppressed for years of a woman and relationship his heart and body cherished. Now, whenever the aroma surrounds him, he is immersed in a world where she and the relationship still exist.
Can anyone be a hero in an age where the lines are so blurred? Sexy, racy, hilarious, and even moving, The Indifference League is a story of what happens when the starry-eyed optimism of the Greatest Generation crashes into the obsessions and fears of the New Lost Generation. Under the faded banner of Superman, Wonder Woman, and other heroes past steps the Indifference League: The Statistician, Time Bomb, Hippie Avenger, SuperKen, SuperBarbie, Miss Demeanour, Mr. Nice Guy, Psycho Superstar, The Drifter, and The Stunner. All archetypes of Generations X and Y, they are here to show us just how much things have changed. Sex and love. Religion and politics. Left and Right. Right and Wrong. Can anyone be a hero in an age where the lines are so blurred? When they meet again at The Hall of Indifference for a long weekend together, The Indifference League will fight to find out. Or not.
Adrian was born and bred to the upper crust but internally he’s a savage. He knows the rules but lives by his own. Gentleman, rogue or barbarian killer, Adrian operates by his own playbook. Leo has enough money to purchase Manhattan and give the island to charity. But she can’t buy her way out of her entanglement with Adrian. He turns her world upside down, a malevolent god she can’t help but worship. She can’t avoid the hellish-hot Brit without avoiding herself. Through the death of someone close, Adrian learns of the Phantom, a shadowy power who controls the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Phantom rules them one and all, down to the deadliest inmate. All the more reason Adrian is determined to find him and eliminate him. But Adrian’s plan goes wildly wrong and the bodies pile up. Will one of them be the one and only woman he’s ever loved? Note: This book contains triggering as well as adult material unsuitable for all under 18
An angel destined to fall. A demon determined to rise. A mortal fated to unite the realms. When six-year-old Lily stumbles into the Underworld, she awakens a prophecy that has been waiting for her since the dawn of time. Now, twenty years later, Lily unknowingly alerts the realms of her existence, and Hell isn’t the only thing coming for her. LILY If you’d told me yesterday that I was chosen to battle the Celestial Lands and the Underworld alongside an archangel and an archdemon who hate each other, I would have said you were crazy. That was yesterday. Today, I am the key to saving both worlds. A war is coming, and the fate of a god rests in my hands. *Sanctum is an urban paranormal fantasy and epic supernatural adventure with elements of spice, why choose, and romance.
