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Brute leads a lonely life in a world where magic is commonplace. He is seven and a half feet of ugly, and of disreputable descent. No one, including Brute, expects him to be more than a laborer.

Fiscal analyst Mike Carlson is good with spreadsheets and baseball stats. He doesn’t believe in fate, true love or fantasy. But then a fertility goddess whisks him away to another world.

Jeff Dawkins’s last partner left him with a mortgage he can’t afford and nonrefundable tickets for a month’s vacation in Europe.

Travis Miller has a machining job, a cat named Elwood and a pathetic love life. The one bright spot in his existence is the handsome guitar player he sometimes passes on his way home from work.

This winter, Jude Bloch can't decide what bothers him more—the crowds of people or the holiday revelry.

When Nicky Hauser walks in on his restaurant-owner boyfriend having sex with a waiter, Nicky loses his lover, his job and his home all in one night.

From New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe comes a seductive, shocking tale of two unhappy women fulfilling their every erotic dream--and finding a desire that kills.

In Mary Monroe's "Nightmare in Paradise," a dutiful wife explores her wild side during a Caribbean getaway, and in Victor McGlothin's "Bad Luck Shadow," a killer on the run from the law prepares to

When Christine married Jesse Ray Thurman, she thought she had found her lifetime love.

After a crash diet and a makeover fail to get the attention of her husband, Annette shacks up with Louis and goes on a spending spree, until she discovers a terrible secret about Louis and turns to

Annette Goode Davis is thankful that her husband Pee Wee has decided to give her a second chance after discovering she's having an affair.

Annette Goode couldn't be happier with where she is in life. She has a good job, a comfortable home, and a wonderful husband and daughter. But tough times lie ahead.

Injured in a war that has stretched on for years, Sergeant John Peterson guards a lonely border.

When a certain kind of man is needed, why not make him to order? Such things can be done, but take care: much can go wrong—but then, sometimes it can go wonderfully right. Imagine...

William Lyon's past forced him to become someone he isn't. Conflicted and unable to maintain the charade, he separates from his wife and takes a job as caretaker at a former mental hospital.