George Simling has grown up in the city-state of Illyria in the Eastern Mediterranean, an enclave of logic and reason founded as a refuge from the Reaction, a wave of religious fundamentalism that swept away the nations of the twenty-first century. Yet to George, Illyria's militant rationalism is as close-minded and stifling as the faith-based superstition that dominates the world outside its walls. For George has fallen in love with Lucy. A prostitute. A robot. She might be a machine, but the semblance of life is perfect. And beneath her good looks and real human skin, her seductive, sultry, sluttish software is simmering on the edge of consciousness. To the city authorities robot sentience is a malfunction, curable by periodically erasing and resetting silicon minds. Simple maintenance, no real problem, its only a machine. But its a problem for George, he knows that Lucy is something more. His only alternative is to flee Illyria, taking Lucy deep into the religious Outlands where she must pass as human because robots are seen as demonic mockeries of God, burned at the stake, dismembered, crucified. Their odyssey leads through betrayal, war and madness, ending only at the monastery of the Holy Machine - Views: 61
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When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracuán, investigation into his murder reveals missing links in a disturbing multiple homicide case from twenty years earlier. As police officer Ramón “el Macetón” Cabrera discovers, Blanco had been writing a book about a 1970s case dealing with the murder of several young schoolgirls in Paracuán by a man known as el Chacal. Cabrera realizes that whoever killed Blanco wanted to keep the truth about el Chacal from being revealed, and he becomes determined to discover that truth. The Black Minutes chronicles both Cabrera’s investigation into Blanco’s murder and goes back in time to follow detective Vicente Rangel’s investigation of the original el Chacal case. Both narratives expose worlds of corruption, from cops who are content to close the door on a case without true justice to powerful politicians who can pay their way out of their families’ crimes. Full of dark twists and turns, and populated by a cast of captivating—and mostly corrupt—characters, The Black Minutes is an electrifying novel from a brilliant new voice. Views: 61
On her way to a new job on a Wyoming ranch, Amy Rollins stops at a roadside bar to take a needed break. Deprived of sex for too many weeks, her first glimpse of a tall, rugged cowboy in the parking lot has her creaming her jeans and masturbating in her car. On the run from the law for over two years, Amy has avoided any personal entanglements. However, she’s so attracted to the handsome stranger that when she later loses a bet with him over a game of pool, she’s obliged to give him a night of sex. This seems easy enough. However, the sassy, smart-mouthed Amy gets a rude and enlightening surprise when, as soon as the two enter his hotel room, RJ pulls her across his lap for a sound spanking. The humiliation and pain-induced pleasure are more than her senses can resist, and she’s shocked to find herself climaxing with a man for the first time ever! Though RJ’s dominating lovemaking has her yearning for more, she flees in fear in the middle of the night. Thankful to escape the man before she does something stupid, she arrives at Kincaid Ranch only to learn that her new boss is the very same RJ – Rand Kincaid. It's not long before she's over RJ's lap again. However, Even though the spanking has her writhing with pleasure once again, the cautious Amy refuses to sleep with him if he wants her to stay on. Determined to win her over, RJ continues to touch her in intimate ways, and right out in the open! Frustration builds in them both, until a willful act of disobedience earns her a public spanking so hot that Amy finally gives in to the rough cowboy. With RJ in control, she eagerly explores her submissive sexuality; meanwhile the open lifestyle on the ranch leads to sexy threesomes, group sex and more public punishment. However, when strange accidents start happening at Kincaid Ranch, Amy’s alarmed. As the careful deception about her past threatens to unravel and expose her damming secret, she knows it’s time to flee again. Another smart, sassy, sizzling Spanking Tale from BJ Wane, featuring plenty of hard hot spanking, paddles, straps, bondage, exhibitionism, dildos, public sex, threesomes, oral, anal and straight sex. Views: 61
Off the island of Crete an illicit diver finds a 30-year-old aircraft wreck on the seabed. From amongst the corpses still strapped inside he recovers a steel case containing four sealed flasks. The rogue diver manages to cut one of them open… but within twelve hours succumbs to a hideous death. Agency trouble-shooter Paul Richter is delegated to investigate the source of the mystery killer, but encounters far more questions than answers. Why has the CIA directed total destruction of the aircraft’s remnants? Why is a hit team roaming the island to eliminate anyone with close knowledge of the missing flasks? Who is now picking off members of the hit team itself? And why are retired agents back in America getting professionally eliminated? As Richter gets ever closer to unravelling a decades-old secret, even he is unprepared for the sheer horror of the truth about to be disclosed. Views: 61
All she can remember is hunger...for him. A year ago, Alexandria Stevens strode through the doors of Wicked Ways and into the arms of a man-a monster, really-who stole everything from her. Her memory. Her life. Now she's a creature of darkness with only hazy images in her mind of that night and a confusing jumble of emotions. A fierce hate...and an even fiercer desire for Markus Santini. Markus has walked through this world for more than a hundred years, knowing exactly who and what he was, until Alexandria undid it all. Undid him. When a former vampire colleague threatens one of the Enclave's own, Markus is needed-but only as the dark, powerful creature he once was. And in order to become that, he must find redemption...in the arms of a woman who despises him with every breath she can no longer take. Views: 61
