An intolerable order. A desperate charade. A deadly secret. Before Commander Torek Renaar can return to active duty, he’s ordered to purchase an animal companion to help relieve his PTSD symptoms. But having been a caretaker for and lost a loved one, keeping even one little human alive is a challenge he feels doomed to fail. It doesn’t help that his animal companion is the newest, most exotic breed on the market, demanding constant attention, daily grooming, and delicate handling. If she doesn’t die first in his incompetent care, she’ll be the death of him. After witnessing the murder of her domestication specialist, Delaney McCormick allows her new owner to treat her like the pet he believes her to be. If anyone suspects she’s more intelligent than a golden retriever, her murder would be next. She endures the humiliation of being washed, the tediousness of being trained to “sit” and “come,” and the intrigue of hearing private conversations. But in Torek’s care, she finds something unexpected on this antarctic planet, something she never had in all her years on Earth while house-hopping between foster families: a home. As companionship grows to love, must Delaney continue the charade, acting like an animal and hiding from the murderer waiting on her misstep? Or can she trust Torek with her secrets, even if the truth threatens everything he holds dear—and both their lives?

Sam is doing everything he can to climb back from rock bottom and get his life on track. After enduring months of legal battles in the aftermath of an assault by several alphas at his workplace, he decides that the best thing for himself and his future child is to move forward, which means taking up a job at the company’s sister branch. Sam uproots his life, hoping that keeping his distance from the past and throwing himself into work will be enough to give him a chance to heal. No matter how jaded Sam has become, especially when it comes to love, there might still be good people in the world, including a sweet, young alpha, Theo, who believes that he’s his fated mate, and seems willing to do anything he can to subvert Sam’s expectations… Thorns That Bloom is a non-shifter, slow-burn M/M omegaverse standalone romance novel set in Kat Sinclair’s VENUSVERSE. It contains a HEA, mpreg essential to the story, and explicit themes that may be triggering for certain readers. A complete list of CWs can be found at the beginning of the book or on the author’s website.

You are missing most of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in the distance and right in front of you. In reading these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses. The hum of the fluorescent lights; the ambient noise in the room; the feeling of the chair against your legs or back; your tongue touching the roof of your mouth; the tension you are holding in your shoulders or jaw; the constant hum of traffic or a distant lawnmower; the blurred view of your own shoulders and torso in your peripheral vision; a chirp of a bug or whine of a kitchen appliance. On Looking begins with inattention. It is not meant to help you focus on your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask. Rather, it is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived "ordinary." Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities - taking a walk around the block - we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives. So turn off the phone and portable electronics and get into the real world, where you'll find there are worlds within worlds within worlds.

Welcome to the Gun Show! The top ten list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face. The Iron Tangle. An impossibly-complicated subway system built out of the world's subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot. Up is down. Down is up. Close is far. The cars are filled with monsters, the railway stations are less than safe, and the exit is always just a few stops away. But there is hope. For the first time, the crawlers are all working together. The loot is better than ever. And the secret to unraveling it all may be hidden in the pages of a seemingly-useless book. Welcome, crawlers. Welcome to the fourth floor of the dungeon.

"The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin." The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose. Carl still has no pants. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. For Carl and Donut, it's anything but a game.

From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing, intensely atmospheric fever dream of medieval horror. Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived, despite the barricaded gates, offering succor in return for adoration. Soon, the entire castle is under the sway of their saviors, partaking in intoxicating feasts of terrible origin. The war hero Ser Voyne gives her allegiance to the Constant Lady. Phosyne, a disorganized, paranoid nun-turned-sorceress, races to unravel the mystery of these new visitors and exonerate her experiments as their source. And in the bowels of the castle, a serving girl, Treila, is torn between her thirst for a secret vengeance against Voyne and the desperate need to escape from the horrors that are unfolding within Aymar’s walls. As the castle descends into bacchanalian madness—forgetting the massed army beyond its walls in favor of hedonistic ecstasy—these three women are the only ones to still see their situation for what it is. But they are not immune from the temptations of the castle’s new masters… or each other; and their shifting alliances and entangled pasts bring violence to the surface. To save the castle, and themselves, will take a reimagining of who they are, and a reorganization of the very world itself.

Die Berater Vincent-Immanuel Herr und Martin Speer sind oft in reinen Männerrunden unterwegs. Ob im Meetingraum oder abends an der Ihnen fällt immer wieder auf, wie engagiert viele Männer gegen Gleichstellung argumentieren und welche patriarchalen Denk- und Argumentationsmuster vorherrschen. In ihrem Buch berichten sie aus erster Hand, wie Männer unter sich über Sexismus, Gendern und Quoten sprechen. Dabei unterscheiden sie verschiedene Typen, erklären deren Befindlichkeiten und nehmen Aussagen wie »Dieses Gendergetue ist Mädchenkram. Wir haben echt wichtigere Probleme« auseinander. Weil sie keine persönliche Erfahrung mit Diskriminierung haben, unterschätzen die meisten Männer die Problemlage maßlos und wittern Übertreibung oder gar Ausnutzung, wenn Frauen Veränderung einfordern. Das Buch liefert eine ehrliche Analyse der männlichen Gedanken- und Sorgenwelt – und einen Plan, wie wir sie zu Verbündeten im Kampf um Geschlechtergerechtigkeit machen können. 

I could have run. But I chose them instead. My pack of broken alphas. And the Ghosts will burn this world to the ground to keep me safe. As we gather unexpected allies and prepare to strike at the heart of the Council, I realize something that terrifies me more than any enemy. I'm not just their omega anymore. I'm their salvation. Their reason to live. Their reason to die. And when the Council threatens everything we've built, they'll learn exactly what happens when you back five ruthless alphas and their feral omega into a corner. The Ghosts are coming for blood. And this time, we're bringing an army. Psycho Pack is the third book in the Ghost Alpha Unit series and the final book in Ivy’s trilogy. Please see the author's website for detailed information about content and themes in this series. These are not standalones and must be read in order.

At the Demon Hunter Academy, a witch's worth comes from her magic and her demon fighting prowess. But when I lose everything in one day – my family, my arm, and my magic – I also lose all hope of graduating this term. Three daring men rally behind me: the sensual healer who saves my life, my seductive college classmate, and our tempting professor who helps me reclaim my lost magic. Their powers complement my own, and I find each one irresistible in his own unique way. But when the infernal realm claws its way deeper into our world, no one is safe. We must band together if we hope to defeat the next demonic incursion. Are these three men bold enough to stand with me against hell itself? Demon Hunter Academy is a steamy standalone paranormal academy romance. This book's main characters will later make appearances throughout Bound to the Vampires, a complete trilogy.