Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them. A decade has passed since the epic final battle that concluded Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). The game-changing spell that gave power to all potential Slayers persists. With new Slayers constantly emerging, things are looking grim for the bad guys.

A special delivery with photos of my groom screwing other women, Sends me bolting from the church right into the massive arms of my abductors. My three oversized alpha captors have much bigger plans for me than walking down the aisle. Anthony my Silver Fox, has a sex appeal that makes him impossible to resist. Christopher likes it rough, with his big bulging… muscles. And Francis, my protector is sweet and kind and hot as hell. These smoking hot brothers have ignited burning desires deep inside me. They’ve vowed to help me get my revenge on the ones who killed my family. They’re ...

This chastity hell I’m in has my body throbbing with a constant desire for my four Mafia Gods. Leo, my father's friend, and right-hand man wants me like nothing else and his desires have me forgetting he’s much older. Nicky, my bodyguard annoys the crap out of me, but how he would take a bullet for me draws me to him like bees to honey. Cesare, my childhood sweetheart, knows all my secret fantasies, the good and the bad. Romeo, we would be a match made in Hell. But he’s wearing me down with every sensual look from those ice-blue eyes. Each Alphalicous man is doing everything he can to...

Med school over…check Reunite with the guys at the Twisted Reapers MC…check Lose my V-card to four biker studs…check Dominic owns the MC and is a smoking hot silver fox. He’s much older but the way he commands respect has me obeying his every word. Bret was my brother's smoking hot best friend and the guy every girl in school would drop her panties for. And it doesn’t take long to realize I’m no different than them. Nick is my best friend's sweet and sexy big brother and he’s totally off-limits or is he? Chase can be an outright bully, but I’ve seen his softer side and it ...

I’m paying for my father’s sins with my body. And heaven help me, I love it. Once upon a time, we all played together as children. Now they’re my kidnappers, And I’m their obsession. My captors Luca, and the twins, Donte and Dominic. I remember their gentleness as a child but time has changed them. Now they are rough, hot AF Alpha males with a grudge to avenge. My father is their target, but I can save his life. All I have to do is act as live bait and lure in the rival gang. But who is going to save me from them? …my 3 mafia gods Dangerous, deadly, and domineering. The promise of...

I walked in on my now ex-boyfriend hitting a high note—with the singer of the band he's supposed to be managing. My encore? Waking up in a tangle of three sinfully delicious rockstars. Three nights. Three nights of heated revenge with the biggest band on my company’s label. Three nights where rough, gruff men struck chords in places I never knew could hum. The morning I woke up sandwiched between the three members of JAX; Was the morning I realized I may have ruined my career. Forever. Yet, instead of facing a firing squad led by my ex at the record label, I was in for the shock of my ...