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Euel Lee, alias Orphan Jones, was an African American accused of murdering his white employer and family over a single dollar. The tumultuous events and cast of characters surrounding the racially charged crime garnered national media attention and changed the course of Maryland history. With exacting research, former Maryland State's Attorney Joseph E. Moore reconstructs the murders, the ensuing roller coast of a trial, and the eventual conviction and execution of Orphan Jones. Moore details all of this in the context of Jim Crow and American society during the Great Depression.

For 4,000 years, creatus have concealed themselves from the humans who hunted them almost to extinction. Now, one rogue faction wants the world to know they exist. Meghan only wants to be normal, and for the first time in her life, she feels she might have a chance to be herself. As she finds herself between creatus families with different ideals and their roles within the human race, she struggles to find her way. Only, her path leads her right into the arms of a wanted man.

Sir Simeon Harvey has realized his lifelong ambition to build a BDSM resort on a private island off the Australian coast. At last Nox Oasis, with its grand apartments, exclusive membership, and very own kinky theme park, is opening its doors to guests for the first time. George and Faye have been especially invited by Sir Simeon himself to celebrate the official opening. Having lost the spark in their marriage, they hope to rediscover their one-time passion.

Get ready to enjoy this contemporary short story collection of sultry erotica that was written to raise more than your eyebrows.

With a crappy ex-husband and a new lease on life, Jade Brooks moves to Spring Mills for a fresh start. What she gets is far more than she bargained for when Holden Foster shows up at her door. He's hot, dominating, and harbors a secret of intergalactic proportions. Jade and her new sexy friend travel to a prison colony on his home planet of Adair, where spankings are a regular occurrence and age regression is a requirement for jailed women to rehabilitate within the system.

Wrong has never been so right. Survival. It's all about the next dollar. It started out as a job, but has morphed into an addiction. Money flows and life is good. Women respond to my mere presence, begging for one more taste. I was the king, on top of the world. It was all a game and I expected nothing less than being crowned the champion. Then she waltzed into the club. And everything became dirty.

The punishment for killing a Don is death…. I have to find Luce before our enemies do, and I lose her forever. She thinks she can hide from me. But I don’t care if I have to go to the ends of the world to get her back. One way or another, Luce O'Brien has to understand that I’m not letting her go. She’s mine to keep, mine to protect.

I knew aliens were real.... I was on a mission to find the truth. Now aliens are attacking my observatory. They are looking for me.... Turns out aliens aren't little green men.... He's a big blue sexy hunk.

Motions and Moments is the third book by Michael Pronko on the fluid feel and vibrant confusions of Tokyo life. These essays burrow into the unique intensities that suffuse the city and ponder what they mean to its millions of inhabitants.

A coming-of-age, short story of young Prince Magus, who learns a painful lesson from his father, King Nall, about the responsibility that comes with being a future king.

Janey Germaine is tired of entertaining tourists in Olympic National Park all day and trying to keep her 12-year-old son occupied at night. When longtime friend and chief of police Adam Herrin offers to take the boy on a ride-along one fall evening, Janey starts to see him in a different light. Adam has had a crush on Janey since college. But she married his best friend and started a family before her husband died in a tragic accident.

When adventurer Maxwell Barnes and his team uncover clues about a lost gold mine in Mexico's Sonoran desert, they think they've struck fortune's motherlode. But after a treacherous tumble down a rocky hillside, they discover something far more valuable buried beneath: something with unimaginable power.

The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Morábito available in English, Mothers and Dogs features fifteen tales that show the emotional extremes in seemingly trivial details and quotidian situations: two brothers worry more about a dog locked in an apartment who hasn’t been fed than they do about their dying mother; when the lights go out on a racetrack, a man’s evening jog turns into a savage battle between runners; a daughter learns to draft business letters as an homage to her mother.

If we allow enmity in our hearts, war is inevitable. For 4000 years, creatus have concealed themselves from the humans who hunted them almost to extinction. Now, one rogue faction plans to retaliate by ridding the world of humankind.

Emily Miller is trying to find a path away from a family mixed up in sin after they tie her up and leave her for dead in a river filled with unthinkable thoughts. When she discovers that the boy who attempted a rescue on her life may have affiliations with the mob, she thinks twice about what it might mean to have his family on her side.

It's Christmas time in the city. Find out how Luce and Santino are celebrating the holiday as newlyweds.

In 1928, a fire spread through Twin Springs Hotel and stole General Rockwell's greatest treasures: his three daughters Emerald, Ruby, and Amethyst. How they really died has remained a secret until now. If Isabella Fairbanks had known that morning would change her life, she would’ve hidden better. But, at the tender age of eight, her friends called her Izzy, her father was larger than life, dreams were make believe, boys were gross, and ghosts lived only in books.

Two weeks ago, Chase Riley and her best friend were kidnapped, severely beaten and left for dead. Chase was the lone survivor but has been in a coma since she was found. The police, led by her ex-boyfriend, Detective Phillip Wade, still have no idea what happened. When Phillip gets the call that his sleeping beauty is finally awake, he rushes to her side. There's just one little problem. Chase doesn't recall that fateful night, and doctors aren't certain if she'll ever remember. And the woman before him is nothing like the laughing jokester Phillip once fell for.

With his family history, Robert Farrell has faced his fair share of problems. Lucky for him, he's never been confronted with a problem he can't solve. When someone starts manipulating his business deals and threatening the people in his life, Robert realizes it's time to gain control and take over. But when he can't control the sexy and mysterious tour guide who refuses his protection, Robert knows that it's up to him to convince her - one way or another.

In 1928, a fire spread through Twin Springs Hotel and stole General Rockwell's greatest treasures - his three daughters, Emerald, Ruby, and Amethyst. How they really died has remained a secret, until now. As a little girl, Ava Fairbanks runs wild within her family’s hotel, Twin Springs, pretending to be anyone and anything, but the little girl who walks in her sleep and wakes to find herself in awkward situations with visions of the 1920s playing in her head.