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Set in contemporary Sedona, Arizona, The Cat Who Fell to Earth is a first contact story like no other, with a pair of the most unlikely heroes. What can Kedi, an alien leonine planetary scientist, and Crystal, a New Age shop owner who witnessed Kedi's crash landing and decides to help him, hope to do pitted against a black ops military organization out on a recovery mission?

A REAL-LIFE JOURNEY INSIDE THE BDSM SCENE Dorothy Freed has been involved in the BDSM scene since the 1970s. In this memoir she writes openly, nostalgically, and lyrically about exploring her sexuality, including her experiences as a submissive and a Domme in a decades-long committed D/s relationship. This collection of interlinked vignettes gives the reader a front row seat to her diverse kinky adventures, providing sexually charged anecdotes that shed light on BDSM and her observations and reflections about the lifestyle. It is laced with humor, warmth, and rich descriptions of San Francisco and The Scene as it progressed over many years. It's a celebration that proves that you're never too old for passion.

Slavery. A crime against humanity and the basis for a whole economy in one of the most shameful aspects of our history is the backdrop against which Lucky Nat is painted. Based on a true and all but forgotten incident, part sea chase and part courtroom drama, it is the story of the capture, trial, and execution of Captain Nathanial Gordon, the only slaver executed for piracy using an 1820 law that declared all slavers to be pirates and if found guilty hanged, Commander Sylvanus Godon of the US Navy's Africa Squadron, who captured him at sea, and those men who brought him to justice and fought in his defense in a controversial landmark case that reaches from the Circuit Court of the Southern District of New York City to Washington and the newly elected President Lincoln.

After Holly tires of the erotic film industry grind in Los Angeles, she heads to San Francisco in hopes of parlaying her modest fame into becoming a successful exotic dancer. A chance conversation with Daisy, a waitress at Big Al's, leads to an impromptu audition that launches her new career and leads to exciting friends-with-benefits naughtiness.

Drawn straight from today's headlines into a soon-to-be America, a broken country gradually beaten down by one-party rule and loss of personal freedoms, Shantyboat follows the story of two homeless men struggling to recover at least a sliver of freedom by building a shantyboat. But their efforts inside a society of surveillance and totalitarian controls soon lead them to commit both theft and murder. Then they meet a remarkable young woman who shows them the path back to self-reliance and dignity. Read Shantyboat, a dystopian thriller, by the author of Trios: Death, Deceit, and Politics-both available from Wordwooze Publishing.

MI6 spies, Russian FSB, Chechen terrorists, Abkhaz Separatists, the 1992 Georgian war. This breathtaking and brutal novel is a gripping tale set in the magnificent Caucasus Mountains during Georgia's ill-fated invasion of Abkhazia in 1992. The Caucasus Cauldron gives a vivid focus to a historical moment left out of the history books, a world ripping itself apart and ravaged by never-ending hatred and blood feuds. Can our hero, Mac, trust the attractive Russian FSB officer, Kris, who befriends him? How will she react to Doctor Anna, a Separatist rabble-rouser who holds the key to his secret mission? And what about the mysterious Sergei, a former British agent, who seems to have disappeared? How will Mac cope with the Chechen terrorist who has vowed to kill him? 'You are a dead man, English. We know who you are. You are spying on our people. Now you die.' The result is an intense action-packed thriller full of danger, death, and fear but a story full of quiet humour and surprising twists and turns.

For Sabrina Hamdi, a modern, young, and attractive member of Algeria's classe moyenne supérieure, life is good, until the uprising knocks on her door. Literally. French security forces whisk her away and toss her into a notorious prison. With a now white-hot hatred of all things French, she devotes herself to ridding Algeria of colonial power. Luc Jaundreau, a battle-hardened French Foreign Legion veteran of the brutal Indochina war, hopes for a new posting to Polynesia. Instead, he finds himself shipped to the "sandbox," Algeria, to help quell yet another uprising. Their first run-in happens when Luc's night patrol innocently rescues a stranded Sabrina (with fake identification) after she's shot three French detectives. A second encounter happens during a nighttime firefight in Algiers' casbah. Sabrina gets the better of Luc. Recognition comes a moment before she almost pulls the trigger of her rifle. Instead, she curses at him and flees down a laneway. A third encounter brings them together at a New Year's Eve soiree in the city's entertainment district. Shocked at seeing each other in this context, they manage an awkward, guarded exchange before separating. Yet a different, non-lethal spark ignites itself in both. They will meet again under more favorable conditions. Transitions offers a sweeping canvas of mid-50s Algeria in turmoil. You will be transported from a sophisticated capital to an ambush in the Atlas Mountains, from the "café wars" in Paris to dangerous night patrols on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Transitions is in part a war story but more a triumph of the human spirit. Fate will have its say as two armed and dangerous enemies move from being wary to being worthy of each other.

.On the eve of WWII, three former freedom fighters arrive in Germany to do the unthinkable: kill an SS officer. American idealists Billy Lachance and Lum Del Luca join forces with German socialist Josef Weiss and plunge deep into the greater Reich. With single-minded determination, they search for Rolf von Huber to repay him for violating the laws of war during the Spanish Civil War. Escaping the killing fields of Spain, the three make their way across the treacherous Pyrenees Mountains, careful to avoid fascist patrols. Capture means an instant firing squad. France offers no comfort either. If army patrols seize them, they'll land in an open-air concentration camp, where pneumonia awaits. With help, the three evade capture while carrying sacks of Spanish gold coins taken from looters. They succeed in swapping the coins for hard cash, which is deposited in a Swiss bank. Billy, Lum, and Josef board a train that takes them to Cottbus, on the border with Poland. Blissfully unaware of what awaits him, Rolf now wears his black Hugo Boss SS uniform, busy with the problem of resettling all Untermensch once Panzer tanks crash into Poland. From the blood baths of Spain to a nerve-wracking trip across the heart of darkness, Impacting History brims with the atmospheric tension of men at their best and worst.

Blood ties. The family we've been given, the friends we make, the loves we keep, and those we lost. The twenty-six stories in Family and Other Ailments teeter on the brink, hover at the periphery or even the possibility of crime. Under a soft light and at an angle, they're all love stories. The collection opens with "Spy Head," a tale of friendship after a crushing trauma. In "Texas Two-Step," brotherhood leads to a wicked double-cross. "Razorbills" shows a young woman seeking freedom from the prison-like caring of her sibling. "Black and Tan" slips into domestic horror, as does "Mutti," with a hint of the fantastic. "Hour of the Bat" and "Bag Limit" are deep woods Texas noir, while "A Head for Numbers" and "No Recoil" go west, to the stark unforgiving beauty of the desert. M.E. Proctor draws characters with a tender touch. She catches them at an inflexion point in their lives, a moment of choice. We feel what they feel, see what they see, and their voices linger for a long time in our memory.

Violet Bernadette Ipswich and her friend, Madeline the fawn, go looking for adventure one moonlit night and set off over the hills and far away to find it. In a mysterious glade, they meet a group of moonstruck rabbits, who tell them about a magical place called Scarborough Fair where all of your wishes can come true. Overcome by delight at the fantastical stories, they decide to go see for themselves. On this journey they meet a shapeshifting wizard who holds the forest under his spell, an evil troll who wants to eat young travelers, a lonely ghost boy named Peppet who only wants to find his way home, and many more odd and peculiar creatures. Violet and Madeline must use all their wits and courage to find their way home before they become lost in this frightening dark wood forever.

African-American computer security expert, Alayna Alexander, will do anything to have a family, including marry a man she doesn't love.But confusion in the form of tall, dark Khavon Brighton, a former computer hacker, slips into Alayna's life when she is assigned to work with him on a top-level security project. Sparks fly as the two race to thwart a desperate cyberthief who has a personal vendetta against Khavon.

Rita Collins, a reporter and writer for a local Washington, DC television station, faces apparently unexplained rejection by her husband, who has suffered amputation of both legs during the Iraq War. He refuses both her affection and any attempts at rehabilitation. At the same time, Rita is investigating a radical political cell on an elite college campus. With the help of her husband's psychiatrist, she discovers that her marriage was doomed from the start because of its intricate ties to the career of her politically corrupt father-in-law, a Pennsylvania state senator, and his manipulative political advisor. Once her initial grief gives way to anger, Rita uses her contacts within the news media to exact revenge on her father-in-law. On the same night she successfully covers a major campus riot, the revenge she fashions proves more destructive than she could have imagined.

When the land goes bad, men turn sour and mean…and that is just whathappens to Vale Tanner, a poor Texas cattle rancher who is watching hiscattle die in an unrelenting drought. With his mentor, Red Bailey, thetwo manage to move the few head that have survived, finding a lush valleywhere they can graze. But all is not what it seems in this area, as theman who owns the land is scheming and stealing from others. As thismerciless prairie tries to take his cattle, Vale's past and presentcollide in a hail of betrayal, love lost, bullets, cattle theft, and more.

ANOTHER RICK O'SHEA WILD ADVENTURE! Rick, Helga, and Lute are commissioned to find the truth about a claim made that Russia's sale of Alaska to the US was not legally completed in 1867. Once again, their signature sleuthing methods enable them to quickly find the truth and resolve the matter once and for all. Of course, this leads to more offers: uncover the thieves of rough diamonds from a Canadian mine, and help neutralize a threat by radicals to plant bombs in the US. During one of their commissioned adventures, the intrepid trio stumble upon a long-hidden stash of gold in an ancient fortress. After hazardous chases around Alaska, Russia, the Mediterranean, Canada, and India in seaplanes, helicopters, and a US destroyer, the team heads home somewhat frazzled and intent upon seeking less harrowing and dangerous future adventures

To walk the shadow trail means to lead a life of pain and sorrow, to be alone forever. Many men came to America to escape their old lives. Baron Karl Augustus Dietrich Wilhelm von Brandt was no different, though he fled his father's crimes and not his own. Easily swindled into buying a Nebraska ranch that's little more than a sand dune, the European tenderfoot is befriended by half-Pawnee Johnny Moon, a ne'er-do-well usually one step ahead of the marshal. Soon Johnny has Will looking and sounding like a Nebraskan. Working together, the impoverished nobleman and the half-breed cowboy transform the ruin into a thriving ranch. Through tough times and good Johnny Moon is there for Will, closer than a friend, trusted like a brother. Then Will marries Silent Summer Woman, the headstrong daughter of a Pawnee chief, and the first wedge of mistrust is driven between the two men, for Johnny Moon is harboring a secret, and if Will discovers it, not only will it destroy their friendship but also their lives.

Time travel is incredibly dangerous. Building a time machine is surprisingly simple. In 2015 Tony Carpenter stumbled upon the plans for the Chronocar, a time machine conceived before it could be built by Dr. Simmie Johnson, genius, scientist, and son of a slave. Tony's visit to 1919 to see the doctor and his lovely daughter Ollie turned into disaster, forcing the doctor to make a most difficult final decision. Now the timeline has worked its way back to 2012. A new Tony Carpenter is about to be hit by a real blast from the past when he chances upon Dr. Johnson's granddaughter, who has a story he can hardly believe and evidence of a journey to the past he can't deny. When Tony shows up in 1919 yet again, Dr. Johnson is confronted with the possibility of his invention ultimately obliterating all of creation. Can they locate and destroy all the copies of the journal with his article and any Chronocars that may exist before everything literally goes to hell?

One night, while walking at Savannah Beach, a teenager named Tony-Paul had an encounter with three sightseeing vampires.That meeting evolved into this novel, highlighting episodes experienced by:Marius, the elder brother. He can't understand why the woman he loves doesn't want to renew their affair. What does it matter if fifty years have passed since they last saw each other?Isn't true love eternal?___________________________________________________________________________Valerius, the younger brother, running from an arranged marriage into the arms of a woman he could really love. Problem is, she's human, all right to bite but not to marry.What's a lovelorn vampire to do?___________________________________________________________________________Cousin Timon, who thought marrying the author of the world's most famous vampire series was ironic but fun...until she wrote a novel proving the Undead exist. Now the leader of New Orleans' nosferatu has to do something about that tell-all book.Stop the presses! ___________________________________________________________________________Join Tony-Paul de Vissage as he relates these stories of three hapless vampires and how they found love, lost it, found it again, and fought to keep it.

This is the much-awaited sequel to Woodward's riveting There is Something You Should Know. The book opens with Jim Bonz picking up the pieces of his interracial affair with Jade Wilson and the parish scandal he uncovered in St. Louis. No sooner does Bonz settle into an executive position in a huge church than he loses his professional mentor and finds himself a potential suspect in the murder of a prostitute. While the trauma readies him for an even more challenging event, the murders of two people close to him, it does not help him resolve his feelings for Jade. This realistic first-rate page-turner vibrates with the gritty realities of a major city--life and death, saints and sinners, good and evil. Woodward puts the reader in the head of Jim, and he keeps surprising us with twists and turns in this incredible story.

A CLASSIC ACTION-PACKED WESTERN Wyatt's life was not destined to be simple or peaceful. Raised as an orphan by an aunt, he never knew either his mother or his famous gunfighter father. When his aunt dies, Wyatt is run off by her brutal husband and eventually taken in by a rancher and his family. During his teens, he sets out to avenge the wrongs done to him and his kin, ultimately hooking up with some highway men and starting his life as a gunfighter¿the Rattlesnake Kid.Running from the law he ends up in Mexico, where bounty hunters track him and his gang down. A snake's rattle is the only warning they receive that they are in danger and a gunfight is imminent. After narrowly escaping that ambush, he and his gang soon must deal with crooked lawmen who want his new family's land and target them to draw him out.

Having survived the best efforts of the Dark Angels to kill him, Marley Fox is conscripted into the British army along with his companion, James Finnegan. The two are sent to South Africa to fight in the war against the Boers, the brutality of which swallows them up as they are thrown into battle after battle. In the midst of the war, the Dark Angels send supernatural forces against them, and old enemies from England suddenly appear and do their best to finish off the pair. As enemies old and new close in on them, their survival is very much in doubt. Only their courage and fighting skills against seemingly insurmountable odds keep the friends going. Will they manage to stay alive as the attacks on them increase in intensity?

RIDE ALONG ON AN URBAN ADVENTURE IN TIME Imagine being born the son of a slave with the mind of a genius. That was Simmie Johnson in the years following the Civil War. After a perilous escape from lynch mobs in Mississippi, he manages to earn a PhD in physics at Tuskegee, and in his research discovers the secret of time travel. He develops a design for a time machine called a Chronocar, but the technology required to make it work does not yet exist. Fast forward 125 years. A young African American Illinois Tech student in Chicago finds Dr. Johnson's plans and builds a Chronocar. He goes back to the year 1919 to meet the doctor and his beautiful daughter, Ollie, who live in Chicago's Black Belt, now known as Bronzeville. But he has chosen an unfortunate time in the past and becomes involved in the bloodiest race riot in Chicago's history. Black Science Fiction Society Book of the Month 2018 Best Indie Book Literary Award, Science Fiction Category

A TORTURED STRUGGLE BETWEEN MORALITY AND SIN Celebrated athlete, Jim Bonz, marries radiant, regal, and affluent Jewell Pepper, about whom he fantasized through adolescence.Four years later she is dead, and Jim's life begins. After the funeral, Jewell's father, appreciating Jim for his role in his daughter's life, gives him a cash gift that frees him from any concern with making a living.From there we follow Bonz from city to city, moving into higher education, high school basketball coaching, and, after some failed relationships with women, even the priesthood. Coaching at West Catholic in St. Louis, Jim meets Ricky Wilson, a super-talented African-American youngster with major college potential. More important, he meets Ricky's mother, Jade Wilson, a stunning single mother to whom Jim is intensely attracted. The story crackles with tension as Jim's celibacy vows and religious upbringing collide with his budding relationship with Jade. As he maneuvers his way through this thicket of strain, Jim comes upon a scandal in the parish in which he serves. No longer able to manage either his personal conflict or his knowledge of the scandal, Jim reaches a breaking point. Action has to be taken.

Marley Fox, orphan, foundling, and poacher, is born towards the end of the 19th century at a time when humans are under attack from the Dark Angels who harvest souls for their own nefarious aims. The youngster's only family is Black Annie, a recluse who has occult powers. The Angels of Light are attempting to protect humans, and Marley is to play a part in the fight against those who would destroy their world. While out poaching, Marley is shot and badly injured. During his fight for survival, Marley has to battle a vicious Ice Angel. He is thrown in prison, where he is befriended by a huge Irishman, James Finnegan. An attempt is made to kill Marley. Finnegan and Marley escape and go on the run through England. Eventually, they take refuge in Ireland. They are still not safe, and they are attacked by the Dark Forces. It is one crisis after another as Marley and James battle to survive. The future fortunes of the world hinge on the ability of Marley and James to survive against the forces of the Angels of Darkness.

SETTLING THE WEST POST CIVIL WAR TOOK GUTS … AND LUCK! In 1866 Matt Draper is full of ambition but without money or family to help him succeed. On the western frontier of an ever-expanding America, toiling as a riverboat gambler seems like the best option to raise enough capital to realize his dream of opening a small-town bank. Though gambling is lucrative for Matt, it is also an unsavory enterprise fraught with danger. Fortuitously, before any harm befalls him, Matt and his friend Charlie discover an abandoned Confederate gold cache in a fake grave, which gives him the stake he needs to leave the treacherous gambling world behind. From then onward his life's purpose becomes evident as all roads lead to Neosho, Missouri, where he opens The Bank and becomes a major influence on its growth and prosperity. Matt's exciting and uplifting saga captures the day-to-day reality of life in the tumultuous post-Civil War era, including the hardships, relative lawlessness, and indomitable spirit of settlers bent on creating a good life for themselves and their neighbors.

MEET GLORIA MORRIS, BADASS P.I. EXTRAORDINAIRE Gloria Morris is a respected private detective with an explosive sense of honor who cherishes frisky ladies, reads Poe and Twain, believes in justice, and kicks a lot of ass. Her investigation into the disappearance of a popular and notorious seductress, whose pervasive presence affects the lives of two compelling women, takes her to San Francisco's sexual underground and the discovery of treasonous political intrigue. She is assisted by the missing woman's roommate and lover, Clarissa, and together they engage in a cat and mouse scenario with a powerful femme fatale, who is Gloria's chief suspect. It turns out that searching for the missing beauty is only one of the problems they encounter. During the course of her investigation, Gloria meets an astonishing lady and begins a life-changing romance. But will this new relationship benefit her work … or deliver her to danger?

Following the death of his estranged brother Tim, Riley Greenham is forced to return to his hometown of Madden. Riley learns that Tim died as a result of a serious heart condition. Carl Morris, the local cop, is convinced that Tim was involved with a recent murder and Tim's death may not have been from natural causes. Carl knows that Tim believed their parents' fatal car crash, more than fifteen years earlier, was not an accident. The paths of two families are tragically entwined, and Riley's present and future life will rely on his wits and Carl's dogged determination to find the truth.

SONIA LEARNS A LOT ABOUT LIFE FROM HOSPICE A summer with terminal patients wasn't what Sonia had in mind when she signed up for her school's nursing internship program. With no previous exposure to death or dying, Sonia joins the ragtag team at Tender Hands Hospice (Your best last resort") and becomes the center of attention to the oddball nurses who work in end-of-life care. Over six weeks, Sonia finds herself passed around a variety of preceptors while facing her fears of corpses, patient nudity, and the strange quirks of one sugar-addicted nurse. Given the choice to sink or swim, Sonia struggles to keep afloat only to discover through a series of bizarre and heartbreaking patient encounters that it takes more than a set of skills to be a nurse. Six weeks of laughter, eccentric nursing humor, and bittersweet moments. Six weeks to show what she's made of. And six weeks to learn that there's more life in hospice than she thought.

Well, it isn't theft, Stellan Nieves tells himself, not when you're stealing from a crook. Stellan, a married mid-twenties Chicago accountant, dreams of a new life free from a spiteful wife and two unruly young daughters. His salvation comes by way of mobster Dusan "Squeezebox" Koväevi¿. Stellan stumbles onto a cache of $2.1 million hidden beneath loose floorboards at Squeezebox's warehouse. He at first resists the temptation, but it proves too tempting. He plots out his theft, and, under the cover of darkness, bolts with the money in his trunk. Ditching his sensible Brooks Brothers suits and wingtip Oxfords, Stellan resurfaces in a small college town in Vermont. Certain no one would ever look for him there, he reinvents himself as Pete Harris, with a beard, wire frame eyeglasses, jeans, plaid shirts, hiking boots, and a pickup truck. A vengeful Squeezebox becomes apoplectic at the theft. He hunts manically for Stellan. Federal indictments put an end to his search. Charged under the RICO Act, he receives a 60-year sentence. His forever home will be a 6' x 8' prison cell in a small idyllic college town. The only way Squeezebox will ever leave prison is in a pine box. Time passes, and serendipity plays her hand. Pete (formerly Stellan) takes college courses. One day he sees a bulletin board notice. The nearby prison is seeking volunteers to teach English and math classes. He mulls it over. Why not? He can spare the few hours. Two men, both decidedly flawed, face each other across a small table in the prison waiting room. A deep caginess hangs over both, yet the chance meeting transforms both in ways neither could have imagined.

SOMETIMES THE TRUTH IS BOTH ELUSIVE AND CONVENIENTLY IRRELEVANT! There's been a burglary in a luxury high rise co-op in Manhattan: an elderly woman was assaulted in her apartment, with jewelry taken. The prime suspect is Johnny Jones, who was in the building around the same time, helping his lawyer, public defender Alan Goldman, move temporarily into the apartment of his friend, corporate lawyer Tim Wilson. But another suspect soon emerges: a look-alike intruder who got into the building through a basement door with a broken lock. The victim is suing the co-op for millions, represented by her niece, litigator Cathy Collins - Tim's ex-girlfriend. She claims the intruder is guilty, but Tim - the president of the co-op's board - claims Johnny is guilty; if so, the co-op isn't liable at all, since he got into the building lawfully. See how lawyers Tim and Cathy behave oh so badly, using sex to influence Alan and A.D.A. Gina Gomez in their handling of Johnny's case, to suit their lawsuit ends… It won't be until the very end of this dark-comedy mystery that the question will finally be answered: which of the two suspects is guilty?

Tammy Wilde came to Ireland seeking escape…from memories of the accident ending her career, her abandonment by an unfaithful husband, and a series of haunting dreams…only to fall in love with a man sharing her unfaithful ex's name. Kevin Padraic Shea is the opposite of that other Kevin. Understanding and gentle, he helps Tammy forget her pain as he reveals the fascination of the Irish countryside. When he tells her the legend of the ghost haunting his family, Tammy doesn't realize her presence will awaken a hatred surviving centuries, as a specter rises to claim a lost love and kill the last male relative of the man who cursed him.