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A runaway waitress leaves her lover, grabs her dog, and hits the highway. Ali Liebegott maps her travels in a series of hilarious and heartbreaking letters to the girl she left behind, and some of the most exquisite poetry written about love, heartache, and madness.

Jessie, Kirsten, and Danielle are sisters-in-law, but they couldn't be more different. Except for the way in which they're the same. After Danielle and Jessie's brother, Andy, marries Lea - and Kirsten's brother, Sean - each woman discovers that her dream of a friendly ménage might actually be within reach. And that three in a marriage is definitely allowed!

In 16 remarkable stories, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color - cunning, bold, and resolute - facing sexual harassment and racial violence, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other.

Anna had fallen deep for Derek, and she was tired of being in the house. When he purposes a night out, she didn't think it could get any better. Willing to please and ready to take the risk, they venture out together. Anna didn't know how much fun it could be to play with fire when in the public eye, but the secret touches and stolen kisses were enough to drive her wild. Derek was going to take Anna's training to the next level, and she was going to learn what it meant to be his in and out of the bedroom.

This audiobook features fresh poems that are flirty, audacious, and original. It is a collection of the author's experience of love as a lesbian. The poems are arranged according to the phases of lesbian love relationship, like Becoming, Falling, Grappling, Breaking, Living, and Ending.

An explicit collection of young-adult erotica, Boy Crazy explores in heady detail the "first time": the first time feeling lustful toward another boy, the first time falling into bed with a peer, the first time discovering love with another young man. This youthful collection relishes the thrill of being crazy for a certain boy, for a moment or for a lifetime.

Eight years before the events of Chameleon Moon, Book 1, Regan was just beginning to feel secure in his new life. He doesn't know many things for certain, even his place in Parole as it hangs in a fragile balance far above an ever-burning fire. But he has no doubts about how he feels about Rowan (who appears in the short story "The Library Ghost" in the collection Life Within Parole, and will again in Book 2: The Lifeline Signal).

In an age of hookups and cybersex, who has time for a little romance? For all those who think love's gone the way of the 8-track tape comes a collection of new gay fiction designed to reignite their belief in love and romance. Follow the travails of a dog walker enchanted with his new client, a restaurant owner who catches the eye of his most loyal customer, a blind date fix-up, and other seekers of the lost flame as they stumble upon romance and a possible chance at love.

The Magic Border is the debut book from the Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize winning musician and poet Arlo Parks. This remarkable collection features Arlo’s handpicked original poems in addition to the complete lyrics to her critically lauded sophomore album My Soft Machine. A deeply personal literary tapestry, The Magic Border beautifully showcases the full breadth of Arlo’s singular artistry.

Abigail’s had a crush on Mackenzie, the motorcycle courier, for months, but Mackenzie doesn’t even know she exists. Nothing exists for Mackenzie, though, except for her pride and joy - her Ducati Monster. After an unpleasant encounter, Abigail decides to get her own back on Mackenzie - in the worst possible way. Despite the pleas of her colleagues, Abigail plans to hide Mackenzie’s precious motorbike and take the haughty so-and-so down a peg or two.

This short story follows two new mothers and their struggles between new and old traditions. Hilarity ensues as a slightly used MUB (Monster Under the Bed) helps their daughter in a rite of passage. Parenting will never be the same.

Terci's success as a BDSM romance author is not mirrored in her relationships. Maybe what she wants is what she writes. And maybe Madame Eve can give her a night to find out if that's true with the Domme of her dreams. Author Mariana Martin, aka Mistress K, has received a 1Night Stand as a gift from her agent, but she fears a convention might not be the best place to play. She keeps her life as a Domme separate from her public career. What if her secret is exposed? But she can't say no to Terci.

When Samantha finally got away from her controlling husband, she swore she'd keep her nose in a book until she got her degree in hand. Being a little older than the other college students made it easy to keep her distance, and her mind on her studies.

The female vampire is so deliciously wicked that her powerful sexual nature was hidden for centuries. But the vampire story has always been one of submerged eroticism. The vampire emerges from the shadows, seduces her intended victim, and feeds on her, defying all rules in her pursuit of pleasure. In Daughters of Darkness, editor Pam Keesey brings the eroticism of the female vampire front and center with explicit tales from some of the finest contemporary queer writers.

The Best Erotica series is the best-selling gay erotica series in America - and with good reason. It sets the standard for erotic writing, with searing action and stories that are smart, edgy, authentic, and wickedly inventive. Designed for your listening pleasure, Best Gay Erotica 2009 includes 20 of the hottest, best-written man-to-man sex stories to appear in that year.

Anna never thought they'd get this far, but things had spun too far out of control before she realized who she really loved. Derek wasn't doing it anymore, but his best friend seemed to be the man of her dreams. With her indecisive heart and passion leading the way, Anna devises a plan to get through and to where she wants to be. Derek may not know what's coming, but his guilty best friend and curvy stepsister do. With passions high and emotions higher, Anna is about to steer them both down a different path.

A fairytale where the heroine gets the princess. Rose is the youngest of Sir Roland's three children, and the best beloved. When her father fails to come back from an attempt to rescue the princess from a neighboring kingdom from the notorious and mysterious Black Knight, Rose does not hesitate to strap on her father's old armor, the red faded almost to invisibility, and ride into the dark forest to help him.

Love Offers No Safety: Nigeria’s Queer Men Speak is a raw and powerful collection of 25 first-person narratives that explore the diverse experience of queer Nigerian men. These stirring stories cut across age, class, religion, ethnicity, family and relationships, offering a glimpse into what it means to survive as a queer man in Nigeria.

This collection of flash fiction is composed of selected, unrelated works created at writing workshops. Topics range from nudist neighbors to vampire encounters on the London subway. There's even a dash of sci-fi! I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I did writing them.

Many people seem to think bisexual women have a magical ability to have their cake and eat it, too. Best Bisexual Women's Erotica offers a salacious glimpse into the sex lives of bisexual women as they really are-passionate, sexy, romantic. From the first captivating moment, you'll find yourself deeply involved with the characters in these stories - and so turned on you'll need some privacy just to finish each story.