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From the moment I learned she was coming to our school, I had a gut feeling it would end in disaster. Out of all the schools in the world, why did Kaitlin Crosse have to choose ours? Her presence confused my brothers and created tension between them, but I soon realized my initial assumptions about her were completely wrong.It was me who possessed the flaws of being wild, arrogant, selfish, inconsiderate, and foolish. My bad judgment call in the midst of the school's scandal may have destroyed everything I wanted.As the world tears Kaitlin apart, my brothers and I find ourselves trapped in a web of lies. Our mother despises her, and even our stepfather's allegiance is uncertain. Kaitlin trusts no one, and who can blame her?But I refuse to wait for her forgiveness or return. If I want her, I have to take action. Kaitlin needs me, and now, I know I need her too.All of us do.*Please note this is a reverse harem and the author suggests you always read the foreword in her books. Contains some bullying elements, mature situations, and is recommended for 17+. This is book three of four in a series and the story will continue through future books.

My name is Tess Owens and my life is officially on fire. I never thought dancing at my best friend Rachel's wedding would be the match to ignite the flame. But with one lingering touch, one longing look...and one sneaky caterer with a camera phone, my almost ex-husband is ready to torch me, professionally and personally. So I do what I do best: run. Straight into Rachel's arms in Florida, where she's the team doc for the NHL's Jacksonville Rays. Star forward Ryan Langley is out with an injury and in need of a place to rehab. I get the surprise of my life when he shows up at my door--declaring himself my new roommate. I came here with six weeks to launch a new business and fight for my freedom. Now I have to fight my mutual attraction to this charming All-American sweetheart too. Did I mention Ryan is ten years younger than I? He doesn't need my drama. But it's getting harder to deny the way he makes me feel. Wild. Fun. Free. I want to believe that our pasts don't define us forever. But first, I have to face my fears. Because with one innocent dance, it was Ryan who helped me start this fire. What if, together, we're meant to burn?

"When an ambitious sports medicine practitioner scores her dream job working for Jacksonville's hottest NHL team, she knows the last thing she should do is get tangled up with a player. After all, how could she choose just one? 'My name is Rachel Price, and two months ago I walked away from The Perfect Man--sweet, funny, and so sexy he should be illegal. We shared one magical night. No names. No strings. I never thought I'd see him again. I was wrong. As it turns out, Mr. Perfect is the playboy grinder for the Jacksonville Rays, the NHL's hottest new hockey team... and thanks to the ten-month fellowship I just landed, I'm his new physical therapist. Imagine my anticipation as those familiar muscled legs walk towards me, the way my pulse races as he reaches out to . . . shake my hand. The jerk doesn't even recognize me! This is going to be the longest ten months of my life. Because now Mr. Perfect Mistake is determined to use his every seductive trick to win me back. Meanwhile, I also have to contend with his best friend the surly team equipment manager, and an exasperatingly stubborn, superstitious goalie who's convinced I'm his good luck charm. This is my chance to prove myself, and I'm not risking it for anything. But between one unexpected night, and one secret revealed, these men are ready to test all my limits. Still, I can't fall for a player--let alone three. Or can I?'" --

He's my boss. I'm his biggest challenge. I'm a hacker. He's a police detective. Controlling me was never an option-I'm not the good girl he thinks I am. But working for the police has its advantages. It distracts them while I reap the rewards from my skills and live the billionaire lifestyle-yachts, planes, shoes, and men. Until my bosshole arrests me. But gathering evidence to exonerate my late mother was worth the risk. My bosshole has a lot to answer for, especially the kiss that rocked my world. Now, I can't get them out of my head-my bosshole, my professorhole, and my best friend. I crave them, desperate to be consumed by the fire they ignite in me. I yearn to watch them together. They're all my fantasies come to life. It will happen too. If I can prove my innocence. If I can stop my best friends from being jailed. I am Queen. I will prevail. ¿¿¿¿¿Billionaire Boss Girl is a contemporary why choose/polyamorous series. There is no need for the leading lady (or her men) to choose in order to find their HEA.Bosshole is book TWO of THREE in this slow build, high heat new adult romantic suspense series.

Een vrouw in gevaar...Serena Brooks is een bestsellerauteur van erotische fictie. Ze weet hoe ze een happy end moet schrijven, maar slaagt er niet in, om er zelf een te krijgen. Inmiddels gescheiden heeft ze niemand waar ze bij terecht kan wanneer een stalker haar begint te bedreigen. De politie gelooft haar niet, en haar ex-man denkt dat ze het hele verhaal verzint. Dan besluit ze professionele hulp in te roepen in de vorm van een paar ingehuurde bodyguards. Zij beloven dat ze haar lichaam zullen bewaken, maar zullen ze ook haar hart beschermen?Twee mannen op zoek naar liefde...Adam Miles en Jacob Dean zijn net yin en yang. Ze hebben hun hele leven gezocht naar die ene vrouw die hen beiden aankan. Adam is de speelse, toegeeflijke minnaar, terwijl Jacob de bezitterige, liefhebbende Dom is. Wanneer Serena in hun leven verschijnt, is Adam er van overtuigd dat zij de ware is. Maar Jacobs verleden achtervolgt hen allemaal. Hij wantrouwt Serena's verhaal, en zijn bedenkingen drijven een wig tussen de twee mannen. Wanneer de stalker toeslaat, zullen zij samen moeten werken of elkaar voor altijd verliezen...

From international bestselling author J Rose comes an angsty, small town reverse harem romance full of spice, second chances, found family and sizzling hot mountain men.I'm on the run.Desperate and afraid.After breaking free from the gilded cage of my abusive marriage, I have nothing to my name but a letter from a long-lost relative.Come home, Willow.Your family is waiting for you.I sacrificed everything to flee for the tiny town of Briar Valley and its promise of a better life for my young daughter.Hope often takes the unlikeliest of forms, but I didn't expect to find it nestled among the rugged, snow-capped mountains.Nor did I intend to surrender my heart to three tortured mountain men, hiding from their own grief in the thick forest of pine trees.Briar Valley offers a home to all lost things, but at what cost?I have to make an impossible choice.Do I spend the rest of my life running from the demons in my past, or should I risk it all in the name of love?Author's Note: Where Broken Wings Fly (Briar Valley #1) is a spicy small town reverse harem romance and book one in a duet. It does end on a cliffhanger. Full trigger warning available inside the book.

From USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster comes a new steamy age-gap, enemies-to-lovers "why choose" forbidden romance!He's a successful attorney with a secret craving for his too-young stepdaughter.He wants her badly. But his wicked son wants her too...Love is an illusion.In my world, collecting the shiniest trophies is what I do.Beautiful wife. Swanky home. Expensive cars. Successful firm. Future attorney general.Add in the Park family name and I'm the envy of every man in town.True love, however, was never attainable, no matter how much I secretly wanted it.The desire to be loved isn't my only secret.My wife is missing.With my life under scrutiny as I run for office, I'm finding it difficult to lie away her whereabouts. People are starting to notice. My political opponent. Her best friend. And worst of all, my wife's daughter, Aubrey.Aubrey is finally back home after two long years with her dad, but she's asking questions I don't have answers to. Yet, that's not all she's doing...She's invading my thoughts and my heart, driving me insane with her beauty and vulnerability.I want her.She's barely legal and my wife's daughter.Forbidden and morally wrong.I can't have her. I can't.My son, though, doesn't live by the same code I do.He wants her too.But not to love...to destroy.I'll risk everything to keep him from her.Even if this tangle of awful costs me my reputation, my campaign, and my son.***This is a complete mfm standalone novel with a happily ever after. Characters are of legal age and there is no romantic involvement between blood relations. ***

When they asked me to stay, I only had one choice.Hi.I'm Melody.I live with four vampire rockstars who would rather spend their time making music than hunting humans, and they're planning to turn me into one of them.As the night of my turning approaches and our plans for making me into a vampire start to unfold, a villain from Rose's past comes slinking out of the shadows and takes her, leaving no trace of where they've gone.Who would want to destroy the vampire?And why would he haul her away?We have to unite and do whatever it takes to save Rose before it's too late, but something tells me that three vampires and one human might not be enough to fight this creature.Sweet Nightmares: The Sound of Roses is a polyamorous, bisexual, open-door steamy book featuring vampires, biting, and lots and lots of fangs. This story includes puns, humor, joking around, pop culture references, and of course, lots of drinking blood.

Die Geschichte der Tiefenpsychologie in Zürich hat einen grossen blinden Fleck. Trotz wissenschaftlicher Aufarbeitung tut sich die Presse und tun sich historische Zeitschriften schwer damit, die einst progressiv auftretende 'Zürcher Schule' (gegründet von Friedrich Liebling und Josef Rattner) als historischen Gegenstand zu anerkennen. Das liegt vermutlich an der erfolgreichen Tätigkeit, die niederschweflig und gesellschaftskritisch, vor allem aber unabhängig von grossen Institutionen war. Die Wirren nach Lieblings Tod (1982) trüben noch immer den Blick auf ein Experiment, das ein erstaunlich modernes Menschenbild vertrat und für eine freiheitlich-humanistische Praxis steht.

When he was seven years old, R.L. Kramer was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. The treatment was stimulant medication.When he was twenty-three and his prescription ran out, he couldn't secure another one. He was blindsided by a brutal withdrawal that struck him with the reality of what years of amphetamine use had done to his life and what he had to do to move on from taking them.As he liberated from the grip the medications had on him, he chronicled his experience in Hocus Focus. How it felt as a seven year old to be evaluated, diagnosed, and medicated. How the medications changed him. How much he loved them. He and the amphetamines walked together intermittently through elementary school, middle school, high school, college, and early adulthood. They encouraged him to plan a cross country bicycle documentary, helped him skateboard with all his heart, and create art in a manic fervor. He went deep enough to reveal the dark side of the medication's effect on his body, mind, and governing spirit and eventually heal his addiction and learn to manage his ADD.Hocus Focus is both a reflection from a member of a generation of kids who experienced childhood and adolescence on drugs for ADD/ADHD, and one person's unique story of growing up on amphetamines.

It's a world where we build an armor of credit. We wear it like an invisible suit of linked coinage and rise in society as cybertypes, sacrificing our souls by increments of increasingly effortless everyday actions, marshaled by watching ourselves in an evermore heroic narrative, in bespoke episodes of an ultimately empty feedback loop¿-¿the Orpheus Chronicles. As our authentic soul energies are sucked away, the planetary weather systems slide towards chaos.A computer scientist has developed a sexual truth-seeking path-finder that sniffs out past lives. He is singled out by his own invention and cultivated by a power elite to be the Return of the Christ. To sacrifice him would reboot world religion and introduce extraterrestrial powers to supplant democracy.Runes encoded in a monument to Shakespeare come to life. Gods from the Bard's comedies inspire polyamorous love to find a way for the powers of nature to rebalance the world in time. Will one last day be enough? (Includes 25 illustrations of Shakespeare monument runes.)

Cycling is not just a form of locomotion. Bike culture is in constant interaction with fashion, music, design, politics and urban planning. Cycling is a way of life and a form of protest. The Easy Rider Road Book shows the wild, subversive side of cycling and the powerful bond it can create between people. It aims to inspire utopian thinking and show where the bike can take us. The pioneers of this new bike culture can be found in subcultures across the globe. In New York and Berlin, bike punks are building both fantastic and sustainable vehicles out of scrap metal and old bike frames. Riding a bike is a form of emancipation: When thousands of teenagers ride through London during BikeStormz, they are expressing their hope for a better future. Similarly, the Chilangos Lowbike Club's Sunday rides through Mexico City are a symbol against violence. The bicycle is a promise of freedom. This book presents the bicycle as a vehicle for communal action that has the potential to change life in the city and, ultimately, the city itself.The MUSUKU, MUSEUM OF SUBCULTURES, is a Berlin-based project of artists and creatives. IT aims to reflect the enormous relevance of subcultures, to give space to their narratives, and to be a place of experimentation, discussion and discourse. The projects are conceived in collaboration with a diverse community as temporary exhibitions in changing venues as well as in the open street.

Tessa Lane is a unicorn and proud of it. Sure, the delightfully chunky 30 year old might be a mess, but at least she's a hot mess. And she knows she's exactly what a ton of couples are looking for: a bi woman who wants a couple... but also wants to keep it casual. To keep things from getting serious, Tessa has a list of rules that helps her go from hellos to hell-yeahs as efficiently as possible when she meets a new couple: One-and-done.Always get a hotel room.And never, ever stay the night. But there's a lot more to this unicorn than meets the eye. When Tessa's mother calls to invite her to an anniversary party in her hometown, the tangle of secrets that she's been keeping begins to unravel. Forced to confront her family's expectations, unwelcome feelings for her brother's best friend, and a couple that has her rethinking her list of rules, can Tessa face a series of unexpected events and her own buried insecurities without compromising what she wants... even if she discovers that what she wants isn't necessarily what she needs? With a cast of quirky and lovable characters, a curvy body-positive main character, and a ton of sass, The Unicorn Confessions is the first in a series of books that walk the line between steamy, scorching romance and witty women's fiction as Tessa explores the ways love and romance can exist outside traditional couples.

Not all storms bring fear. Some cleanse wounds and heal souls. One stormy night breaks Kane Austin. Moving deeper into the Pennsylvania woods doesn't heal the heartache of his tragic loss, nor does it offer the peace he longs for. He certainly can't bear the thought of loving again.Charley Woodhill blames himself for his sister's and niece's deaths. He feels he doesn't deserve Kane's forgiveness, and especially not his love, but that doesn't keep him from watching over his best friend from afar, coveting what he can never have.Determined to live a quiet life, Jill Walters isn't looking for a man or complications. But flames of desire bright as a lightning strike can't be denied, and the consequences of falling for not just one but two men shake her unstable foundation.Will Kane let go of the ghosts from his past? Can Charley find the strength to share the man he's longed for since childhood? Or will Jill choose for them and flee to keep the two men safe?

The best things come in threes!Kayla has no choice but to return to the place she never really called home. Her ex-stepfather, Daniel, has news of her money-chasing mom.Parker, son of her mom's new husband, has come to demand that Kayla expose her mom for the lying, scheming woman she is.When Daniel reveals the real relationship he had with her mom, their secret desire for each other is a secret no more. But Kayla likes Parker too...Part of a series of standalones about three roommates and their journeys to find love.THE ROMANCE IN NYC SERIESDOUBLE DELIGHT:SOLDSUBMITSHARETHE BILLIONAIRES:THE BILLIONAIRE AND THE VIRGINTHE BILLIONAIRE AND THE BARTENDERTHE BILLIONAIRE AND THE ASSISTANTFORBIDDEN BOSSES:ABANDONEXCEPTIONCONFESSION

I was always told things came in threes...Everything changes for Realtor, Tiffany, with an anonymous email to her business account where the sender describes what he'd like to do to her in vivid detail.Then she meets him at a viewing - H, owner of Club S, where patrons bid for the stage. Soon the email is being lived out in the flesh. After, H asks her the question, "Have you ever had two men at once?" Tiffany leaves.With no further contact, Tiffany begins dating neighbour Brandon, but she can't get thoughts of H and threesomes out of her mind, especially after she visits the club and sees one up close.She wonders if Brandon is going to be enough for her, until a shock encounter means she doesn't have to wonder any more...THE ROMANCE IN NYC SERIESDOUBLE DELIGHT:SOLDSUBMITSHARETHE BILLIONAIRES:THE BILLIONAIRE AND THE VIRGINTHE BILLIONAIRE AND THE BARTENDERTHE BILLIONAIRE AND THE ASSISTANTFORBIDDEN BOSSES:ABANDONEXCEPTIONCONFESSION

In the 1990s, queer youth, outcasts and artists, flocked to San Francisco to find one another and to experiment with art, self-expression, style, and gender. Rent was affordable, paving the way for queer bars, clubs, tattoo shops, galleries, cafes, bookstores, and women-owned businesses to emerge. A new wave of feminism embraced gender bending, and butch/femme culture flourished. The Mission District was the center of this queer cultural renaissance, and the feeling of community was palpable. Chloe Sherman was both a member of this community and an ardent visual chronicler. Her documentary photographic work on 35mm film stems from a commitment to capturing the vibrancy, tenderness, individuality, resilience, and joy within this subculture that was derided by mainstream society. Distilling the spirit of the time, her debut monograph is a candid portrait of a vibrant era that connects current and future generations to the pulse of San Francisco at a pivotal chapter in queer history.CHLOE SHERMAN (*1969, New York City) arrived in San Francisco in 1991 and earned her BFA in Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in magazines such as Rolling Stone and Interview. Her documentary photography is deeply influenced by her fine arts training.

For years, magic users have denied the existence of beings beyond their own, but the delicate balance between light and dark is about to be shattered. Enter Hudson Jacobs, a woman who is about to be swept up in a world of magic, danger, and destiny. Except, Hudson has no idea of the plans that have been set in motion to protect her and solidify the prophecy, or of the risks that she will face along the way.Forced to attend a Magic University she never wanted to go to, Hudson discovers that four of her instructors are not only the hot, tempting guys shes always wanted but that one of them was the guy who took her virginity years ago. To top it all off, they also happen to be her mates. But danger is looming, and Hudson's destiny as the Queen of the Fae is rapidly unfolding.With everyone's expectations weighing heavily on her, Hudson knows one thing for sure: she is not a pawn in anyone's game. As she faces down the coming danger with fire in her heart and a fierce determination to protect what is hers, Hudson will learn the truth behind her powers and the origin of magic itself.When the light and dark collide, who will maintain the balance within the Veil? Will Hudson rise to the challenge and embrace her destiny as Queen, or will she be consumed by the very forces she seeks to control? The fate of two worlds hangs in the balance, and only Hudson, and her mates, can find the way forward.

Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, dynamic and enduring of intentional communities worldwide. This book is a critical and insightful analysis of the utopian practice of this unique spiritual township, by a native scholar. The author explores how Auroville's founding spiritual and societal ideals are engaged in its communal political and economic organization, as well as various cultural practices and what enables and sustains this prefiguratively utopian practice. This in-depth, autoethnographic case study is an important resource for understanding prefigurative and utopian experiments - their challenges, potentialities and significance for the advancement of human society.

The concept of 'subculture' is an invaluable tool to frame the study of non-normative and marginal cultures for social and cultural scholars. This international collection uncovers the significance of meaning-making in the processes of defining, studying and analyzing subcultural phenomena. Examining various dimensions of interpretivism, the book focuses on overarching concerns related to interpretation as well as day-to-day considerations that affect researchers' and members' interpretations of subcultural phenomena. It reveals how and why people use specific conceptual frames or methods and how those shape their interpretations of everyday realities. This is an unprecedented contribution to the field, explaining the interpretive processes through which people make sense of subcultural phenomena.

Fi has always known there's something not quite right about herself.Not quite human.For as long as she can remember, Fi has been sensitive to other people's emotions. So sensitive, she works a night job as a cleaner to avoid being overwhelmed by all of their feelings.After a night on the town goes wrong, Fi comes to the attention of the Academy of Avalon. The obscenely beautiful jerk of a man who comes to collect her confirms her suspicions - Fi isn't human at all.But all is not as it seems in Avalon. Magic is dying, those who have it are hunted, and at least one person really doesn't want Fi there.Fi also has to figure out how to deal with the insane magnetic pull she feels to some of the most gorgeous and magically powerful males at the Academy. What's a little boy drama on top of an identity crisis?This is the complete Empath Found trilogy, featuring The Terrible Gift, The Unwanted Challenge, and The Reluctant Keeper, as well as new bonus content. This series is a fated-mates-with-a-twist, medium burn reverse harem. Suitable for readers 18+