THE DOORWAY INTO DEPRAVITY
For hundreds of years Camarilla vampires have preserved the Masquerade—an intricate dance of deception, misdirection and manipulation that conceals their nocturnal predations from mortal eyes.
Now, the Sabbat are about to crash their party.
The Clan Novel series takes a sinister turn as the dread Tzimisce emerge from their macabre dungeons and laboratories to take a decidedly unhealthy interest in events.
Amid the rising nightmare, charismatic Sascha Vykos—an Old World monster with a New World agenda – brings both scourge and velvet glove to rally the fractious Sabbat forces. A great reckoning awaits the complacent Camarilla—if only Vykos can preserve the volatile alliance and keep the Sabbat serpent from devouring its own tail.
This series is a monumental, 13-novel exploration of the forbidden world of the Kindred. What began in Clan Novel: Toreador continues here, and its ending will determine the fate of every human—and inhuman—being in the world. Views: 133
New York Times bestselling author Meghan March continues the story of untold truths and one man's redemption in the Dirty Mafia Duet. I never expected to be anyone's white knight. That's not a role I've ever played. But when the Casso crime family shifts into uncharted territory, they're looking for a new hero, and they're looking for me—Cannon Freeman, the black sheep. But my time in disgrace is at an end. It's my turn to rise up and save the people who matter most to me. Even if my family has never given a damn about me, I will not let them fall. More than anything, I will not let her fall. One thing I know is true—in my life, nothing is ever what it seems. White Knight is book two of the Dirty Mafia Duet and should be read after Black Sheep, book one. Views: 133
A painfully awkward love story. Incomprehensibly awkward Elizabeth Wilde is desperate for love. Connection. Intimacy. After a lifetime of romantic failures, the twenty-one-year-old gamer realizes she needs help. Professional help. She needs... A sex tutor. The devastatingly hot jock Austin Jacobs is just the man for the job. As the reigning campus sex god, he has the playboy act down pat. But underneath those six-pack abs beats a broken heart. He doesn't trust people and he sure as hell doesn't believe in love. The odd couple strike a deal. Four weeks of 'tutoring' for five thousand dollars. When Austin coaxes Elizabeth out from behind her computer screen, the attraction they feel is undeniable. They're both a little broken, but somehow their jagged edges fit. And when their world comes tumbling down on top of them, they each have to decide if this weird thing called love is worth fighting for. Views: 133
Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy—Winner Take All Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe—from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea—exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia's rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the United States, and the West's most important alliances. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, but ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson emerge as two of the past century's most consequential corporate villains. The oil-and-gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and... Views: 133
A spine-tingling new collection of stories from the acclaimed author of Thrill Me and The Dark NetBenjamin Percy is a versatile and propulsive storyteller whose genre-busting novels and story collections have ranged from literary to thriller to postapocalyptic. In his essay collection, Thrill Me, he laid bare for readers how and why he channels disparate influences in his work. Now, in his first story collection since the acclaimed Refresh, Refresh, Percy brings his page-turning skills to bear in Suicide Woods, a potent brew of horror, crime, and weird happenings in the woods.A boy in his uncle's care falls through the ice on a pond and emerges in a frozen, uncanny state. A group of people in therapy for suicidal ideation undergoes a drastic session in the woods with fatal consequences. A body found on a train and a blood-soaked carpet in an empty house are clues to a puzzling crime in a small... Views: 132
**An Older Brother's Best Friend Romance**Rowley Ford, my brother's best friend, is easy to worship and impossible to forget. Believe me, I've tried.He was once my protector and hero, but after Kat, his longtime girlfriend, played a humiliating trick on me I decided it was time to quit fan-girling over him.As it turned out, it wasn't that hard to avoid someone once they'd gone off to college.And when Rowley finally returned to town, he pursued a career as a firefighter. (Of course, he would choose a heroic profession.) Fighting fires in California can keep you pretty damn busy.But keeping my distance never stopped me from pricking up my ears anytime Rowley's name was mentioned. I know that he's already been promoted to fire captain and that Kat left him because he wouldn't commit to marriage. According to my source, it's a gambit. Kat's sure that in the end she'll get that engagement ring.I could tell her from experience that marriage isn't worth the trouble.I recently married a singer from a locally famous rock band.And even more recently, I divorced him.Now I've made the mistake of doing something a little reckless, which puts me back into Rowley's orbit. When he catches me skinny dipping, he's the figure of authority in his firefighter's uniform while I'm naked and vulnerable.The cherry on the top of this embarrassing reunion is the fact that he doesn't even recognize me. I guess he never considered that his best friend's little sister would grow up some day. But the biggest change, the one he doesn't care for—it's that I'm no longer the compliant, adoring girl who tagged along and obeyed him without question. That silly girl, the one who fantasized about a future with him, is long gone. Views: 132
