Fighting for Infinity
Amelia and Erin thought they had it all figured out: defy fate and prove that love conquers all. But when it comes to vampires and humans, nothing is ever simple. As the Salvatore Regina and her warrior protector, they're revered as the queens foretold in prophecy, destined to save the vampire world and bring peace to the Fallen and their human mates.When Grand Master Mohan's bold plan to reveal the existence of vampires to the President of the United States goes catastrophically wrong, the response is swift and brutal. Humanity reacts to the unknown in a way that should have been predictable: with fear and fire. Ripped from their Hawaiian honeymoon, Amelia and Erin find themselves on the run for their lives, and for the fate of all vampire kind. With the world against them and a centuries-old prophecy weighing on their shoulders, they must decide if they're willing to fulfill a destiny they never chose.Is the prophecy their fate or their prison? Can they forge peace between humans and vampires? And what if, to do both, the price is everything-even each other?In this adrenaline-packed conclusion to the trilogy, Amelia and Erin confront the limits of their love and their sanity. Racing across the globe, they leave behind a trail of danger, desire, and impossible decisions.Somewhere along the way, they just might find that infinity isn't merely something to fight for-it's theirs to claim. Together.
How to Sleep at Night
"Funny, charming...you can do no better than to curl up with this sparkling book."--The Washington Post"By turns insightful, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, How To Sleep at Night is a delight."-- J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Bestselling author of Friends and Strangers"This wonderful debut is about the rough and tumble road that true love represents for all of us." --James McBride, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store"This debut sparkles with wit and insight. I found myself laughing and gasping in equal measure. A true testament to the complexities of modern relationships--this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever wondered how to bridge the gap between who we are and who we aspire to be." --Dolly AldertonA witty and whip-smart novel about love, marriage, and family ties stretched thin by ambition.Meet Ethan and Gabe. A devoted couple for years, they have successful careers, an adorable daughter, and a house in the New Jersey suburbs. Sure, they may have drifted to different ends of the political spectrum, but their marriage still has its spark. Then one night Ethan makes an announcement: he wants to run for Congress as a Republican--but only if he has progressive Gabe's blessing. For weeks a slightly queasy Gabe struggles between supporting his husband and maintaining his own lefty ideals. He can feel himself slowly pulled under the tide of Ethan's ambitions, even as he becomes widely known as a conservative spouse. In a nearby town, suburban mom Nicole wonders what happened to her younger self--living in New York City, freely dating men and women, and on a path to a career in the art world. Nicole feels like an accessory in her husband's life and like she's given up on the goals she had for herself. Then an old flame re-enters her life unexpectedly. That woman is Ethan's sister Kate.A political reporter at a major newspaper, Kate has reached the top of her profession. But the adrenaline rush of chasing a story has lost its thrill. When Nicole--the woman who broke her heart--slides into her DMs just as her brother starts his controversial congressional run, Kate's life is thrown into a tailspin that threatens to derail the success she's worked so hard to achieve."A sharply funny exploration of marriage and ambition, How to Sleep at Night has the feel of whispered secrets exchanged over cocktails with your smartest friend."-Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street"This wonderful debut is about the rough and tumble road that true love represents for all of us." -- James McBride, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
Daron's Guitar Chronicles
The heart-filling conclusion to the saga of Daron and Ziggy!The long-awaited final volume in the Daron's Guitar Chronicles series."Existing is so weird. Life as an organic being is all so... complicated, and yet it is what it is. It just is. You just are.Thoughts like that meant it was time for me to act like I was not having either a panic attack or an existential crisis."Daron has some soul searching to do. The very last person he ever expected to get between him and Ziggy is his own mother, but when she asks for his help he finds himself in the wilds of Tennessee.Ziggy has fled the family drama, back to the city, where he is dealing with issues Daron won't be able to ignore for long. Digger's lawsuits are finally coming to a head, and Daron is going to need Ziggy's help more than he knows.Meanwhile, a shakeup at their record company means that doors that had been closed might be opening again... if only Daron and Ziggy are ready to leap into new opportunities, together?It just might work. If only Daron could find his lost inspiration and write a song...READERS SPEAK!"I've laughed and cried over the years along with Daron. He has a strange ability to make me feel anxious right along with him, wishing I could make it better somehow! He and Ziggy... They're so damn sweet. I've already started again and probably will re-read the whole thing many more times. Love you guys.""Fitting, beautiful ending. Hope you and Daron both enjoy your well-deserved breaks! I look forward to anything in the future, but in the meantime, damn, yes, downtime is needed for you both I'm sure! Thank you for this story and for sharing Daron and Ziggy's journey with us.""I gotta say I didn't see the end coming. But then all good things must come to end sometime. This was a good place to stop...things fixed, or almost fixed. Ziggy & Daron are in a committed relationship and keep working on making it thrive. I look forward to future works you might put out there for us. Thanks for the wonderful memories."
Waiting for Something Else
The path to love doesn't always travel in a straight direction. Waiting for Something Else tells the story of James, a heterosexual man who unexpectedly falls in love-but not quite in lust-with his gay co-worker, Roger. "Martin Cloutier's prose is suffused with intelligence, wit, compassion, and a vision of the world uniquely his own but which also speaks to a potentially wide readership. This writer is on the cusp of an impressive literary career." -Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog "Martin Cloutier understands that comedy -- the searing, real kind -- begins in an honesty as painful for the reader as for the author. We laugh when we read his work because we hear, fatally, the accents of our own abjection as it encounters the humiliations of daily life." -Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story Bald, bewildered, and Buddhist, James is struggling to adjust to life in New York City. Nine months into managing a Brooklyn gourmet restaurant, he's still friendless and dateless, and secretly pining for Sherry-a Wiccan vixen with a narcissistic streak-but too timid to act. One drunken night, while confessing his unrequited love to Roger, a playwright known for sex comedies, James unwittingly stumbles into one of his own when Roger makes a move on him.Roger, weary of sculptured thighs, pecs, and the superficial chicken parts of gay dating, is drawn to James's awkward sincerity-and his knack for puppet animation. James enjoys the ego-stroking attention of Roger's sexual advances, and envies his ability to make art in off-Broadway Brooklyn, but remains unsold on his hairy chest, prominent jaw, and unavoidable penis. Things become even more complicated when Sherry, escaping her bipolar boyfriend, moves in with Roger-only to catch feelings after a drunken night sharing his bed. In this era of shifting identities, sexual fluidity, and the messy modern search for connection, Waiting for Something Else tackles the complexities of attraction-the fine lines between gay, straight and questioning-exploring whether desire can transcend sexual orientation and our personal expectations.
Dear Benjamin Manwha Volume 1
An omega in hiding and an alpha with a dangerous past meet in a collision of desire and danger. Isaac has always lived as a beta, but his world turns upside down when he discovers he's a recessive omega during an undercover operation. As he experiences his first heat cycle, he encounters Felix, a notorious and hyper-dominant alpha arms dealer. In the midst of a chaotic raid, Isaac, overwhelmed by his heat, seeks relief from Felix. Four years later, Isaac has reinvented himself as a modest florist in San Diego, trying to escape his tumultuous past and conceal his omega status. His peaceful life is shattered when Felix reappears. Felix is immediately infatuated with Isaac and, upon discovering that Isaac needs protection from an unknown threat, offers a dangerous but tempting deal; his protection in exchange for Isaac's body. A flower shop isn't the safest place for an omega with a past, especially when Felix is around even more so when Issac's most precious secret may be uncovered...
Give My Love to Berlin
"Set against the glittering decadence and impending doom of Weimar Germany, Give My Love to Berlin chronicles a forgotten chapter of LGBTQ history with remarkable depth and humanity. Katherine Bryant has crafted a heart-wrenching and unforgettable tale of forbidden love and moral defiance, offering readers a glimpse of beauty and brutality and reminding us of love's endurance through history's darkest chapters. - Paul Levine, bestselling author of the Jack Lassiter series and the Solomon vs. Lord series "A moving story about ordinary people caught up in historic events, with devastating results. It is poignant and disturbing, with chilling parallels to our own time. Katherine Bryant's debut will stir your anger and touch your heart." - Al Pessin, multi-award-winning author of the international spy thrillers, Sandblast, Blowback, and Shockwave. Give My Love to Berlin follows the lives of two gay couples in the late 1920's Weimar Republic as it slowly gives way to the Nazi's Third Reich and one young woman in America in the 1990s where she grapples with the onset of her grandmother's dementia and discovers secrets her grandmother kept hidden for decades. In 1920s Germany, Tillie and Ruth and their best friends, James and Ernesto, navigate falling in love, thriving in their community, and coming to terms with the danger they're in just by being who they are, even as Tillie watches her father, a prominent lawyer, become more and more entrenched in the Nazi Party. Ruth, a performer at one of the nightclubs in the city and Tillie, working in her father's law office where she meets Joseph Goebbels and Hermann G繹ring, become convinced that her and her friends' lives are in danger as the Nazis take over Berlin one neighborhood at a time. Decades later in America, the shocking truth about Tillie, Ruth, James, and Ernesto and life under the deadly specter of hate and bigotry is finally revealed as a timely story about love, sacrifice, and the choices one must make in the face of danger.
A Week Away
"You're my dad." That's the first thing teenager Cass Reilly says to Dom after crashing his housewarming party. The boy is not his son, but could throw Dom's life into complete disarray by exposing his false identity. Cass agrees to let Dom be if he helps find the killer of the real Dom Reilly. He wants to kill him. That leads Dom and Cass to Reno and then to Detroit where he encounters Cass's larcenous mother, his mob-connected family and eventually the killer himself. Dom struggles to keep the kid from murdering anyone while trying to protect the life he loves.
A Language of Limbs
"The prose is textured, viscous almost, an ooze of sweet honey shot through with golden light . . . A Language of Limbs is a novel of (impeccable) vibes and mood, a gay hymnal written from inside the guts of the two protagonists."--Yves Rees, Australian Book Review A beautifully inventive, tender novel--the author's first to be published in the U.S.--following two lives as they almost intersect over three heartbreaking yet euphoric decades A Language of Limbs is a breathtaking spin on a will-they-won't-they love story; it is a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community, and how joy is found in even the darkest corners. Newcastle, Australia, 1972. On a sticky summer night, a choice must be made: to give in to queer desire or suppress it? To venture into the unknown or stay the course? In alternating chapters, poetically called Limb One and Limb Two, we trace the two versions of a life that follow. In Limb One, a teenage girl is caught kissing her neighbor and is kicked from her home; in continuing to run, she chooses a new life for herself. She lands at a queer communal home in Sydney called Uranian House, where she meets the people who will forever become her family. Meanwhile, in Limb Two, a teenage girl pushes down her lustful dreams of her best friend and eventually makes her way to a university in Sydney to study English literature. During pivotal moments, the physical space between Limb One and Limb Two closes and they almost intersect--like when they each meet the first great loves of their lives in 1977 at a protest, or when, almost a decade later, they are both rushed to the hospital with only a curtain between them. Through the AIDS crisis--and from classrooms to art galleries, beds to bars, and hospitals to homes--we witness these two lives shadow each other until, finally, they collide.
George Falls Through Time
GEORGE FALLS THROUGH TIME IS. . ."Incredibly entertaining and intelligent." --GARRARD CONLEY"Big-hearted and inspired." --STEVEN ROWLEY"Funny, surprising, profound." --GRANT GINDER"Unputdownable." --LUNA MCNAMARALess meets the year 1300 in this exhilarating and thoughtfully genre-defying literary novel about a man transported through time in a moment of extreme stress, whose modern anxieties are replaced by medieval brutalitiesNewly laid off George's internet bill is in his ex-boyfriend's name. He's got a spider-infested apartment, and two of the six dogs he's walking in London have just escaped. It's pure undiluted stress that sends him into a spiral, all the way to the year 1300.When he comes to, George recognizes the same rolling hills of Greenwich Park. But the luxuries and phone service of modernity are nowhere. In their place are locals with a bizarre, slanted speech in awe of his foreign clothes, who swiftly toss him in a dungeon. Despite the barbarity of a medieval world, a servant named Simon helps George acclimate to a simpler, easier existence--until a summons from the King threatens to send his life up in flames.George Falls Through Time is as much an inward journey as an outward one: an immersive exploration of identity and dislocation that pits present-day sensibilities against a raw and alien backdrop, a strangely perfect canvas for the absurd anxieties of our modern lives. It's a profound meditation on the nature of desire perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and The Ministry of Time.
The Sins of the Cities of the Plain; or, The Recollections of a Mary-Ann
Blue Aloes
Step into the mesmerizing landscapes of early 20th-century South Africa with "Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa" by Cynthia Stockley, a literary gem that has been out of print for decades and is now beautifully republished by Alpha Editions. This captivating collection of stories, restored for today s and future generations, is not just a reprint it's a collector s item and a cultural treasure. Stockley s masterful storytelling weaves together tales of love, mystery, and adventure, set against the backdrop of South Africa s vibrant and untamed wilderness. Her vivid characters and evocative prose transport readers to a world where the human spirit is tested by the raw beauty and challenges of the land. Each story is a timeless exploration of the complexities of human nature and the enduring power of the landscape that shapes it. Whether you're a casual reader or a collector of classic literature, this edition offers a unique opportunity to own a piece of literary history. Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of South African life and let Stockley s enchanting narratives captivate your imagination. Rediscover a classic that promises to inspire and resonate with readers for generations to come.
Vance Reorganizes the Ministry
It was unimaginable that the Father's Touch International Ministry would still be needed during the thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ upon the earth after the end of the seven-year Tribulation period, when Christ conquered AntiChrist's army and cast him, the False Prophet, and Satan into hell. In their resurrected state, Vance Gordon, his family members, and the former members of the Ministry were enlisted into a crusade to help the mortal human beings, who were still being tested for their worthiness to enter heaven at the Final Judgment. The reality was that there were still people struggling with sexual issues, drug abuse, and mental problems even during the Millennium period when Christ and his appointed saints were ruling the whole earth. While there were no major wars, diseases, or rebellions for the first nine hundred years, the last century became so corrupted through Satan's release from hell and his influence upon the earth that there was the final battle between Satan and Christ to determine who would rule the remaining inhabitants. The Gordon family, the former directors of the Ministry, and thousands of their former members did what they could to prepare as many mortals to resist the conquest by Satan and his demonic army, However, Saint Michael the Archangel, King David, and Gideon conducted the military tactics involved. The good angels and the resurrected humans outnumbered and outmaneuvered the forces of darkness. In the end, it wasn't clear how the Earth would be renewed after all the damage and killings. The Bible foretells that both the earth and the heavens will be recreated. It will be interesting to see what happens next.
