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Protector is a Steamy Possessive Billionaire Stalker Interracial Short Romance Kenya: I was just trying to survive—juggling bills, camming on OnlySpice, and keeping my real life and online persona separate. Then he showed up—ruthless, rich, and ready to burn down my world just to make me his. Ian: I watched her through the screen for months—sweet, filthy, all mine in my head before she even knew my name. The moment I saw her in danger, I stepped out of the shadows... and dragged her into my world, where I could finally touch what I’d only dreamed of being mine. Sensual, Dark & ...

Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. It’s her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption. One night, she picks up a transmission that isn’t code at all—it’s a cry for help.

I picked up a hitchhiker. Now I’m not sure I’ll get home alive. I finally bought my own Airpods. I hear something terrifying when I wear them. Today, I looked in the mirror... for the first time in 10 years.

An Ancient Book Harboring Monstrous Secrets. A Deadly Guardian Ravenous for Blood. Rick can’t let go of what he’s seen and done. Participating in the slaughter of a werewolf will do that to a guy. But now unsettling questions linger. If that’s out there, what else lurks in the depths of the night? Now Rick has followed hints and rumors of a tome that will provide answers. But there’s a snag: it’s spent centuries secreted away in a castle dungeon in the Austrian countryside. Now he travels alone, risking his life on a perilous journey into the heart of darkness.

Jared is dating Katie and it's going nowhere. She's very religious, and far more conservative than he is. Her mother is always around, guarding her and ensuring they never get a chance to be alone. Karen pulls him aside during Bible study at their house, explaining that she knows he has needs, but that he must suppress them around Katie. She takes him to her bedroom, and shuts the large wooden double doors behind them. This is a story about what happens behind closed doors.

The boundary between our world and the realm of nightmares is thinnest at midnight. In his latest collection, master storyteller Robert J. Bradshaw pierces that veil, releasing a flood of terror. A weary traveler seeks shelter in a mysterious house and discovers an otherworldly underground complex. From atop a radio tower, a maintenance worker witnesses a strange, creeping darkness engulfing the land. A boy must overcome his crippling phobia of telephones to make a life-or-death call. A mysterious being offers a night shift worker the chance to alter reality to meet his deepest desires.

In her second story collection, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels. In these dazzling stories, she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends, laying bare the moments when their long held beliefs are overturned.

For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself.

There is a book that is shrouded in mystery. Some even say it's a myth. Within its pages is a play - one that brings madness and despair to all who read it. It is the play of the King in Yellow, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days. The King in Yellow is a collection of stories interwoven loosely by the elements of the play, including the central figure himself.

When the narrator of House of Day, House of Night arrives with her husband in a village in remote southwest Poland, she knows no one. Before long, though, she discovers that everyone--and everything—there has a story. With the help of her neighbor, the eccentric Marta, she pieces together the fragments of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet.

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.

In this collection are updated stories from some of your favorite Valentines.

Doscientos años después de la Conquista, la dinastía Targaryen vive su apogeo. Los Siete Reinos de Poniente atraviesan un momento de relativa paz en los últimos años del gobierno del rey Daeron. Es en este escenario que Dunk, un muchacho pobre del Lecho de Pulgas, tiene la oportunidad única de dejar su vida miserable y convertirse en el escudero de un auténtico caballero.

El nuevo libro de un narrador imprescindible. Una inolvidable colección de relatos de Fernando Aramburu. Una mujer que deja de cuidar a sus padres...

Much of Richard Matheson's work has found its way into pop culture: The title story became a memorable episode of television's The Twilight Zone, and more recently, Will Smith starred in the blockbuster movie I Am Legend. Stephen King has declared Matheson to be one of his favorite writers. Find out why as you listen to the classic horror story of a man who peers out of his airplane window to see a gremlin destroying the wing.

On a hot day in late June, four boys head out into the pasture with a bag a firecrackers. If and when they return, their innocence will be left behind amongst a flurry of exploded Black Cats . . . and blood.

Adam is Violet's shy roommate. They get along just fine, but she can't seem to get him out of his shell. She decides to go snooping through his things while he's at class, and can't believe what she finds. Apparently, they have more in common than she imagined. Armed with her newfound knowledge, she feels empowered to make him into her good boy. He can't believe the sudden change in the way she treats him, and starts seeing her in a whole new light. Friends With Benefits is a friends to lovers romance.

CREEP takes listeners on a terrifying tour of our everyday lives. Wicked stories about the people and places we come in contact with each day that harbor terrible secrets and horrors. We walk through the world thinking we know where every step will lead but if the dark stars align, the commonplace can become shocking. It’s the type of horror that can CREEP up on you and leave you shaking with terror.

The Gibson sisters weren’t expecting to speak to each other ever again after Isabel ran off to New York and left Sophie alone. But here they are, years later, running the family bookstore together on Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Isabel also thought she’d left Johnny Lenox behind, but whether or not she knew it, Johnny was always going to be there for her. Five years into their happily ever after, Isabel and Johnny are making the most of their second chance at love.

Curated by the author, Thrilled to Death is the definitive entry point for both established fans and new listeners alike. These selected stories collect a bold, playful, and eclectic ensemble of Tillman's Borgesian fictions that span decades and traverse themes of sex, death, memory, and anxiety. With argumentative wit, Tillman's meditations and reflections on art, politics, and culture are animated by deliciously paradoxical characters who desire and fret in turn, and who are imbued with searing intelligence and dolorous ambivalence.