Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family-a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard- drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, "cold as death, mean as a snake," becomes increasingly more vicious toward her, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney-and leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back.

Customer service has never been this personal.Robin Christopher, beleaguered retail worker, isn't having an easy November. His boss is raising stress levels planning a Black Friday to end all Black Fridays, his family doesn't understand him, and his best friend thinks his new crush is a hallucination brought on by watching too many episodes of Doctor Who.Archie Levine dresses in Victorian style and divides his time between caring for his young son and creating weird and wacky steampunk gadgets from bits of old junk — when he's not looking after his mum and trying to keep on good terms with his ex. The last thing he's got time for is a relationship, but the flustered young man he met while disembowelling a fridge is proving very tempting.When his mum's social conscience is roused by a local store with a cavalier attitude to the homeless, former rough sleeper Archie shares her anger. Little does he know that Robin works for that same store. When Archie...

Local news photographer Ethan is pretty sure there's no such thing as a jackalope. Every bunny he's ever seen has been a cute little furry creature, not a dangerous, horned beastie. But somehow he lets big, tough American hunter Logan drag him into Parkhurst Forest on the Isle of Wight on what Ethan's convinced is a wild goose chase.Logan's on a mission to wipe out the jackalope colony he's convinced has been brought to the island by a madman. He's got a healthy respect for the vicious critters, which is more than he seems to have for the less physically imposing Ethan.But when an escaped convict from a nearby prison bursts into the mix, all their plans are thrown awry. Seeing Ethan at the mercy of the violent criminal brings Logan's true feelings for the smaller guy out into the open ... and what happens next could lead to a change of heart about the jackalopes, as well!

One will betray her.Still reeling from the events of Greece, the hunters find themselves targeted by demons and werewolves. As they try to figure out who has marked them for assassination and why, Shanna learns more about who the mysterious figure Diana was, and about the people she is hunting alongside. After the dust settles, they will never be the same again.Gish Heart is in trouble. At 35, her small public relations firm has dwindled to nothing. She has a mortgage, a car, debt and a penchant for independence. Now, she is forced to seek work in the "real world," say what she's "supposed" to say and do what she's "supposed" to do. She is not pleased. What's more, she's pretty sure she's falling for her recruiter, a friend from college and a sympathetic listening ear.

Special Agents for the Department of Diplomatic Security, Taylor MacAllister and Will Brandt have been partners forever and lovers for three months, but their new relationship is threatened when Will is offered a plum two-year assignment in Paris.Will believes the posting only means postponing what they both want. Taylor fears that kind of separation will mean the end of their new and still-fragile relationship.It's a bad time to find themselves in the middle of the New Mexico wilderness responsible for the health and welfare of a suspected terrorist. Especially when everyone else they run into seems determined to see their prisoner — and them — dead.

Kevin knows his crush on his gorgeous but impossibly aloof boss Marcus isn't going anywhere. So it's a huge shock when Marcus mysteriously appears one night in Kevin's bedroom. Kevin has just enough time to enjoy Marcus' attention and warm familiarity, then Marcus vanishes.And then it happens again the next night.And the next.Meanwhile, back in daylight office hours, Marcus is as cold as ever with no obvious recollection of his night-time visits.What's really happening? Kevin's emotions run deep, but so does his confusion. He's wary of believing they have a chance together, yet his body and heart respond too joyfully to ignore.It will take a twist of fate, a break in the routine, and a bizarre time trip to bring them together properly and, hopefully, for real.

A murderous fall down icy stairs is nearly all she wrote for Anna Hitchcock, the "American Agatha Christie." The cry for help from his old mentor cuts short mystery author Kit Holmes' romantic weekend with his new lover J.X. Moriarity, and lands him an amateur sleuth gig in an elegant snowbound mansion in the Berkshires. Unfortunately, a clever killer is still one step ahead of Kit...

The decades-old disappearance of twenty-one-year-old teaching student Deirdre O'Donnell is the Holy Grail for true-crime buffs—and Skylar Brennan, the host of the Ugly Town podcast, is no exception. In fact, on the mean streets of the internet, he's considered an expert on the case. (In law-enforcement circles, he's viewed as just another crackpot amateur sleuth.)Every February, the remote New Hampshire village of Woodlark holds a candlelight vigil for Deirdre. Family, friends, and "supporters" of the long-missing girl gather at the spot where she was last seen. This is Skylar's first vigil, and his fans are really looking forward to meeting him—though maybe not as much as the anonymous person who emailed him coordinates to Deirdre's grave.

Final installment in the best-selling Hat Trick series. It’s been twenty years since Simon Roberts and Alex Miller became boyfriends. Now they’re back where it began to pay tribute to a smashed losing streak, a retiring coach, and a lost friend. As old teammates reunite, it’s a time to honor their past while Simon and Alex prepare to embark on another part of their happily ever after.Final installment in the best-selling Hat Trick seriesIt’s been twenty years since Simon Roberts and Alex Miller became boyfriends. Now they’re back where it began to pay tribute to a smashed losing streak, a retiring coach, and a lost friend.As old teammates reunite, it’s a time to honor their past while Simon and Alex prepare to embark on another part of their happily ever after.NOTE: If you haven't read any of the Hat Trick books, be warned there are spoilers all over the place in this freebie! So do yourself a favor and pick up one of the other titles in this series first and see what all the buzz is about!

The final confrontation between Neldin and the Six won't be won by weapons alone. Victory requires something from within each champion. But when the battle claims some of those Farrell loves most, can he ignore the pain and find the will to win, or will Nendor fall to Meglar's darkness?

Mordred Pendragon, the Bastard Prince, has done a Bad Thing-again. Exiled to Canada for seven years, he has to find a job to pay his bills. For reasons he refuses to reveal, Mordred decides "Software Engineer" has a nice ring to it. And though experience with "killing the Once and Future King, my father" and "that time in feudal Japan" makes for a poor resume, he is hired by a small tech startup in Toronto. In the midst of dealing with a crippling caffeine addiction and learning C++, Mordred thinks he has finally found someone to anchor him to the world of the living: Alan, the company's offsite lead developer. Except that Alan might not be a "living" entity at all-he may, in fact, be the world's first strong AI. Or a demon that mistook a Windows install for the highway to Hell. Or, just maybe, the ghost of Alan Turing, currently inhabiting a laptop.Mordred's attempts to figure out his love life are hampered by constant interference from the Inquisitors of the Securitates Arcanarum, corporate espionage, real espionage, a sysadmin bent on enslaving the world, and Marketing's demands that Mordred ship software to the Russian Federation. Then Alan gets himself kidnapped. To save him, Mordred must ally himself with the company's CEO, who will stop at nothing to rescue her lead developer so he can get back to work. But the Prince doesn't just want to rescue Alan, he wants a Happily Ever After-and he will travel beyond Death itself to get one. Too bad Alan is perfectly happy as a computer. From the AuthorIn The Prince and the Program, Toronto is rife with Inquisitors, Computer Programmers, and Magic. An homage to Alan Turing, the book is filled with codes, hidden messages and Easter Eggs. Parts of the novel can be compiled into computer programs - in the Shakespeare programming language.A $1000 award is being offered to the first person to solve the book's codebreaking challenge. About the AuthorA native of Toronto, Aldous Mercer enjoys martinis and relaxing on the beac-ha! No.Aldous Mercer is a workaholic with a penchant for numerical mind games and caffeinated beverages. He uses his degree in Engineering to ensure that none of the spaceships in his books have cubic pressure-vessels. In real life he always annotates Engineering Drawings in Iambic Tetrameter.Aldous can also be found on Facebook, Twitter and Gmail.

All Dillon wants to do is flirt with his crush. Too bad his family keeps getting in the way. It’s Saturday night and nineteen-year-old beekeeper Dillon should be at home enjoying game night with his big family, but he can’t resist another trip to the strip club. It’s the only night he gets to see Cal, who stars in all Dillon’s fantasies and has no idea he’s been using a fake ID to get in to see him. But making fantasy a reality? That’s difficult, especially when Dillon’s family can’t see him as an adult, let alone someone capable of dating a man twice his age. And that’s only the beginning of the complications that seem determined to keep Dillon and Cal apart.

San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous - unmistakably the handiwork of Armistead Maupin.