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Jamie Hernandez loves his life. He has his family, his friends, and a successful freelance career at just 23. The only thing missing? His monster. The one Jamie has seen in his dreams for the past five years. Jamie doesn’t know much about the enigmatic man from his visions, but he doesn’t need to. He knows enough. He knows they belong together. Lucien Volaire has been losing his mind for almost half a century, the monster within him steadily taking greater control over his thoughts and actions.

I never imagined the protector I longed for would be a mob boss who demanded complete control. I shouldn’t have gone to Lucien’s office. Once I looked into his eyes, I couldn’t leave. He commanded me to kneel. Beg. Obey. I couldn’t help myself. One taste, and I craved more. Lucien vowed to protect me from his enemies...But who’s going to protect my heart from him?

Delve into the mind of Critical Role’s most charming villain in this original novel that chronicles Lucien’s early life and his fateful meeting with the Mighty Nein. Lucien has always been able to spin a bad situation to his advantage. From his childhood on the dangerous streets of...

A gifted yet financially disadvantaged artist falls victim to the manipulative control of his wealthy, enigmatic Harvard roommate in this incendiary novel from the author of Beautiful Country—a piercing exploration of class, ambition, identity, and the perilous cost of reinvention in the...

In a time of pandemics and disease, the ailing world finds itself on its knees, desperate for the cure promised by leading geneticist Dr. Lucien Sabara. With his simple EVE-0 treatment, he seemingly offers an answer to the world's prayers. Though as Gabrielle and Chris learn, the geneticist's true agenda is to play God over humankind, forcing women to require medical intervention to conceive, allowing Lucien to edit unborn embryos in order to create a better race, a more equal race, a more evolved race.

Hannah Gold never thought she’d speak to Ethan Reisner ever again. Getting dumped in high school will do that to you. But when she needs to find a beloved sweater in time for her parents’ 50th anniversary, she begins her search where she last saw it: Ethan’s childhood home. She thought calling Ethan out of the blue would be the hardest part, but breaking fifteen years of silence was just the beginning. Why is Ethan being so friendly? And helpful? And funny? And is it possible for someone to be handsome over the phone?

A True Story (Ancient Greek: Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Alēthē diēgēmata; Latin: Vera Historia or Latin: Verae Historiae), also translated as True History, is a long novella or short novel written in the second century AD by the Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. The novel is a satire of outlandish tales that had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those that presented fantastic or mythical events as if they were true. It is Lucian's best-known work.

Sterin has spent his life at the forge. He speaks more easily to silver than to people, finds comfort in routine, and wants nothing more than to be left alone with his craft. When he once forged a collar for a cursed woman, he didn’t ask questions. He simply made it well. Now the Hunter’s Guild wants to know his secret. Their silver kills. His contains. And they’ve sent someone to learn why. Maera Temlin arrives with credentials, a commission, and questions that show she’s actually listening to his answers. She doesn’t fill silences with chatter. She brings him food he can’t ...

Lucien, an Eros vampire, has finally found what he had been searching for. The one woman that will fulfill his every need. Not only is she a rockstar, but the adopted daughter of Aleksander, the wolf's Alpha, and the vampire's long-time enemy. Jade, bass guitarist for the Darkest White, and human daughter to the Alpha, has spent most of her life wishing that she fit in. She wasn't even above begging for her bandmates to turn her even knowing that it would only get both of them in trouble. But when Lucien steps into her life, she finally sees her opportunity, and knows that as his mate his ...

A fae nymph. Cold iron chains. Three men who don’t understand what they’ve caught. Lyralei of the Auburn Spring has spent centuries walking the border between worlds. She seduces merchants, blesses harvests, and nudges mortal fortunes with a smile and a touch of magic. But in the alleys of Belquarry, one mistake is all it takes for everything to vanish. When cold iron manacles snap around her wrists, Lyralei’s power drains away. Her glamour fades. Her carefully planned diplomatic mission lies in ruins. Stripped of magic and locked in a cellar, she faces three captors who have no idea ...

She’s never been worshipped by a mortal man. Her sisters think that’s laughable. On Beltane, everything changes. Nerida has lived centuries as a forest nymph, yet she has never once known the intoxicating reverence her sisters collect with ease. While they are showered in offerings and devotion, she has remained on the outside, unsure of her own power. Determined to prove herself during Greywold’s Beltane festival, Nerida sets her sights on a village watchman—but her borrowed charms and awkward appeals falter. Then Thane risks his life to protect her from an ancient evil. For the ...

Shadows Over Saint-Julien The Secrets of a Quiet Village Unravel Nestled in the serene French countryside, Saint-Julien seems like the perfect village—a place where time stands still, and the slow rhythms of rural life offer peace and tranquility. But beneath its picturesque exterior, the village is hiding dark secrets, and Ludovic Craven, a retired detective with a complicated past, is about to find out just how far those shadows stretch. When an outsider arrives, bringing with him a dangerous and mysterious agenda, Ludovic is pulled back into a world of intrigue and danger he thought he...

Now featuring exclusive new material including excerpts from Desi Arnaz’s unpublished second memoir and commentary by daughter Lucie Arnaz, here is the expanded edition of the New York Times bestselling memoir of Cuban American entertainment legend, TV pioneer, and I Love Lucy star Desi Arnaz...

What began as a sleep-learning experiment became one of the most careful first-person maps of consciousness in the modern era. The Gateway Experience: Book One - Out of Body traces Robert A. Monroe’s path from a practical broadcasting executive to a disciplined explorer who logged hundreds of out-of-body experiences, tested what he could, and taught others to do the same. Inside you will find a clear narrative of Monroe’s early vibrational episodes, his verification attempts in the here-and-now environment he called Locale I, his passage into the broader nonphysical territory of Locale ...

In an England where monsters have spilled into the world out of myth, only London is magically protected from the monstrous threat. The University runs the city, allowing family of graduate Hunters, Healers, Scholars, and Artificers to live behind the wards.

Set in a fractured world where justice has long decayed, Lucien Adrien Belland is summoned from obscurity and pulled into a path carved by something far older than war. He carries no banner, but the world recoils at his presence. His silence is not empty—but forged, watched, and waiting.

Everyone thought my wife was dead, but I never stopped searching for her. When I finally found her, the timid young woman I forced to marry me was all gone. In her place was a fiercely independent woman who hated my guts. I might have deserved it. But did it stop me from dragging her, her secret child and her best friend back to New York City with me?

A thief. A statue. A woman who visits him in his dreams. Branimir has pulled off impossible jobs before, but nothing like this—slipping into a guarded manor to steal a pale alabaster statue with an unsettling half-smile. The moment he escapes with it, the dreams begin. Vivid. Intimate. Impossible. A woman he’s never met appears in the steam of a bathhouse, the silence of a library, the shadows of his past… and she knows exactly how to unravel him. Each night, the dreams grow deeper. More real. More dangerous. Meanwhile, the city tightens its search. The safehouse walls feel smaller. ...

When wounded nobleman Anton seeks refuge at Alys’s remote mountain inn, he expects only to recover and move on. What he doesn’t expect is the innkeeper’s playful suggestion that he serve her for a month as payment— or how much he’ll discover about himself in the process. Each evening, Anton kneels to unlace her boots and follow her gentle commands, awakening desires he never knew he possessed. Alys—skilled in more than just innkeeping—guides him with authority and genuine care. What begins as necessity deepens into something neither anticipated, as Anton learns that submission...

The first biography of the large life of one of the most important, enigmatic, yet private artists of the twentieth century. Drawn from almost forty years of conversations with the artist, letters, and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. Lucian Freud...