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The pack's roots are buried beneath the dunes... Ama Chilton is the matriarch of the Wharton wolves: unfathomably old and impossibly strong. But, she wasn't always Angus' packrat granny with a penchant for muumuus. After the bloody end of both World War II and her relationship, Ama Chilton abandons the Big Apple in search of what she's never had: a wolfpack, a family. Wharton-and the Cove Motel-was just supposed to be a rest stop on her journey south. That is, until she meets Rafe, a handsome Alpha. Rafe has just returned from the Pacific Theater, and is haunted by what he's seen-what he's done. He's surly and rakish, but he offers her a job, and a pack to run with after dark. As their bickering relationship blossoms into a passionate love affair, Ama thinks she may have finally found a place to call home. But, Wharton isn't just the quintessential vacation town. A series of grisly murders rocks the small community, threatening to expose the whole pack. Everyone is a suspect. And, unfortunately for Ama, her past has no intention of staying buried, either.
Can two people find their way back to each other?Straight-talking, driven, and committed to being the best sports agent and manager in the Pacific Northwest, Beatrix "Trixie" Cavendish works hard and doesn't allow herself to be distracted. She'd let that happen once before and not only did it threaten her fledgling career, it also broke her heart into a million pieces.The cause of that heartbreak? Chris Ford. While he is currently first line winger for the Seattle Whalers, Trixie remembers him as the ambitious rookie from the wrong side of the tracks who promised to love her forever. However, his career and her ambitions caused their young love to shatter. Neither Trixie nor Chris ever really recovered.Ten years later, they're both living in Seattle and actively avoiding each other. But an unexpected event in Chris's life turns his world on its axis. The only person he feels he can turn to is the one woman he knows will never take his call.Can these former lovers work together again or will past pain and heartbreak make a reconciliation impossible?
Is it a gift if it has teeth? Haley Campbell is caught in a snare: longing to run wild but terrified of her secret violent urges. When she finds her grandfather's diary in the attic, she discovers her insatiable hunger is an inherited trait. The ancient frail man who used to chain-smoke in her parents' living room is responsible for countless unsolved murders in the 1930s and -40s. Fearful of following in his bloody footsteps-her birthright, after all-she travels to Wharton, a beachfront town, hoping to find the Alpha who may have a way of curing her hunger before someone else gets hurt. Candy Bailey is feeling boxed-in: an unfulfilling relationship, a dead-end job, and a raging case of writer's block. Something has to change. Then she meets Haley, a beautiful young woman on a mysterious quest. Candy is desperate to help her-if only to see her smile. But when their relationship escalates into something more, Candy is thrust into a dangerous world she never knew existed. Meanwhile, Alpha Angus Chilton and his human lover, Hunter Bailey, have built a quaint, beautiful life together in Wharton. The tumultuous events of the previous year are now just a distant nightmare. But when Haley makes her presence known, it may tear everything they built asunder.
A wolf shifter. A cute Barista. A gruesome murder...After a murder threatens to expose the wolf pack, Angus Chilton leads them across the country to thwart being discovered. When they settle in a place where he harbors bucolic childhood memories, Angus meets Hunter Bailey, a handsome, human barista. Primal emotions are stirred as the danger rises, after all, he's a human and he's a wolf. Can he really drag him from the world of coffee to one filled with blood?Angus and Hunter are drawn together by shared trauma and similarly problematic ex-lovers. But can Angus keep Hunter safe when his murderous, impulsive, and jealous ex-boyfriend catches wind of their burgeoning relationship? Conversely, can Hunter keep Angus safe from his own? Fangs revealed, blood will spill as throats are literally ripped open mercilessly.Readers looking for werewolf horror vibes with a romance in the backseat will find the Wolves of Wharton series perfect as we explore a variety of relationships, past and present, involving a pack of wolves willing to do everything it takes to protect their own.
In 1970s Hull, a tiny revolution is brewing. Young sex workers find their creativity and independence. Besotted artists perform outrageous stage-shows, and young women discover the beauty of feminism, book clubs, and shower heads. This intersectional collection of short stories paints a picture of a post-hippy, bohemian lifestyle, where punk, art, and abjection meet.Fluid is an interconnected collection of short-stories, each chapter based on a piece of 1970s artwork containing or alluding to body fluids. All the artistic pieces examined were chosen because they fitted within two categories: they all included the use or suggestion of body fluids, and they were all successful in creating controversy. The artists included are Vivienne Westwood, Mary Kelly, Valie Export, COUM Transmissions, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Oppenheim, Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneemann, Judy Chicago, Suicide, Chris Burden, and Jenny Holzer. The chapters bleed together to create a cut-and-paste plot reflecting northern England during a time of social unrest.Fluid is a story about people and their bodies, their connections to each other, and their unwavering primality.
Where do the dead go when they rest?The poetic mystery of death has long been a fascination for the living. The images of warm hearths and a familial embrace are conjured for some, while others picture screaming in eternal torment at the hands of a demon. And yet, clerics have the power to pluck the dead back from that plane, thrusting them back into their mortal coils or even raising them into a state of eternal Undeath. Surely the gods would grow weary of their clerics pinching souls that rightfully belonged in their afterlife. Wouldn't they?A partnership forged in fire and blood between musicians, artists, writers, editors, and more currently rests in your hands. The Black Ballad is a 10-chapter roleplaying campaign made alongside DiAmorte's second album, a savage metal opera of cosmic proportions. This saga will let players decide the fate of the afterlife itself while immersing themselves in musical works focusing on loss, acceptance, and determination in the face of one's own death. Will your campaign have the gall to challenge the will of divinity?
Hockey is his first love, but she may be his true love.Chef Milly Chambers spent her entire adult life rising through the gourmet culinary world. After basking in her creativity for years, what is Milly to do when all the unique ideas that she has built her career on suddenly disappear? Fleeing France in shame in an attempt to reignite her passion, she takes a job in the kitchen for a hockey team. Tasked with creating a unique menu for the entire season, Milly struggles ... until she meets a man with more passion than he could possibly use. Surely, it's not a crime to spend time with him if it helps her career, right?Nobody loves hockey more than Ethan Jones, the captain of the New York Blizzards hockey team. Hockey is his lady, his calling, his everything, and he will do whatever is required to keep his skates laced up for as long as possible. But when a new player on the team refuses to cooperate, it puts his abilities as a leader and his future into question. The only bright spot of this hockey season is the gorgeous new chef who is funny, talented, and not at all hiding something.
Two years ago, Sheriff Jim Burch saved Harper's Landing, but the once-tranquil town seems to attract trouble.The forest that surrounds Harper's Landing is no longer safe. Death lurks behind every bush; young people, picnickers, and fishermen are brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. While Jim Burch and his deputies scour the walking paths and hideaways, danger creeps out of the forest, headed for the Grove and the families that live there.Jim is once again forced to seek mundane solutions to supernatural threats. And this time he will have some strange-some would say extraordinary-help, indeed.
One parent is a superhero. One parent is a supervillain. Aqua Marine is a work in progress.
Yo ho, ho, a pirate's life for me...Leon has lived his whole life on the sea: first as a fisherman's son, then as a stolen token, and now, as a pirate in his own right. A man with the heart and parts of a machine, there is little in the world that sways him, especially not the batting eye of a stranger at port. And yet, he is drawn to this man, this beauty who follows him aboard and sings with the voice of a siren.While there are more important matters to attend to like dodging tempests and wrangling the crew, Leon is unable to resist his song. Can the steel of a wounded heart melt, or will Leon's heartstrings be plucked to nothing?
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