Dark Addiction

There is no light without the dark At the end of the day, when the day is spent, there is only one thing to do: think. You know there's a problem. You know there's a very real, very likely, disaster ahead. But you ignore it. Or someone ignores it. Or, perhaps, you feel that nobody cares. Whatever the reason, hope is slim. Life is tough and drugs are tougher. But don't give in. There is a light amid the dark, and I will show it. Let me help you. Personally, let me guide you from a place I knew too well. Hopefully, to a place you'll embrace as well. What do you have to lose? Depression, Drugs...

My name is Rani. I have the voice of an angel. And the heart of a thief. I sing. I steal. I seduce. It’s all the same to me. Stealing is easy with pheromones that render your victim powerless. That’s my skillset. No apologies here, especially since I only prey upon heartless criminals and give to the needy. The way I see it, the rich scumbags have enough to spare. But now I’ve got to steal something else. CAIRN wants me to do a job for them, to catch a vicious drug dealer, Kastor Oleander, the worst scumbag of them all. They give me little choice. But they also give me a bodyguard. ...

It started innocently enough. Beautiful Harper gave Sean those eyes...those eyes that meant, yes, take me. But Harper didn’t know Sean’s secrets.... She didn’t know that he liked it rough. More than rough. He liked to dominate. To punish. To degrade. It was the only way that the black hole in his soul wouldn’t swallow him up.

Adult children of sex addicts (ACSAs) struggle with their sexuality and longings for love. ACSAs have not had their stories told in any significant way in the recovery literature. Intergenerational trauma is transmitted through the legacy of carried sexual shame—the burden of which is not theirs. A Light in the Dark offers hope for unburdening ACSAs by sharing the experiences of others, as well as examining the characteristics, roles and recovery that point toward the freedom and joy they rightfully deserve.

Anthony Bourdain didn’t just eat his way across the world—he narrated it, dissected it, and ultimately got devoured by it. Anthony Bourdain: A Guy Who Should Be Dead is an unflinching portrait of the man behind the myth: heroin addict, father, chef, celebrity, and loner. With a sardonic tone that echoes Hemingway and a scalpel-sharp narrative, this book strips away the glossy TV persona and reveals the fractured, compelling human beneath. From his suburban New Jersey childhood and the drug-fueled chaos of New York’s culinary underbelly, to the accidental explosion of Kitchen ...

Keith Moon wasn’t just The Who’s drummer—he was their chaos engine, their comic relief, and their most volatile liability. Known for explosive performances and even more explosive offstage antics, Moon’s life was a whirlwind of fame, destruction, brilliance, and heartbreak. Keith Moon: The Last 24 Hours is an unflinching rock and roll biography that reconstructs the final day of this iconic musician's life, diving deep into the real events that led to his tragic death on September 7, 1978, at the age of 32. This book provides a blow-by-blow account of Moon’s last hours, based ...

From the best-selling author of the Sandman Slim series, a lush, dark, stand-alone fantasy built off the insurgent tradition of China Mieville and M. John Harrison - a subversive tale that immerses us in a world where the extremes of bleakness and beauty exist together in dangerous harmony in a city on the edge of civility and chaos. The Great War is over. The city of Lower Proszawa celebrates the peace with a decadence and carefree spirit as intense as the war’s horrifying despair.

Born in Manchester in 1977, Anthony Kavanagh's rise to fame was stratospheric, scoring a record deal at the age of just eighteen and winning the much-coveted Smash Hits Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on Top of the Pops and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of. But Anthony - or Kavana as he came to be known - was also trying to keep his sexuality a secret while navigating his way through an industry where image was everything.

My childhood sweetheart is now my sworn enemy. I either resist the billionaire next door… or surrender everything. I should hate Theo Roberts. But his smoldering eyes make me melt. His touch sets my body on fire. Those hands… No! Focus, Mia. I inherited my grandmother’s beach house, and I’m not selling. Theo may have built an empire next door, but this place is my heart. And the cocky billionaire isn’t playing fair. We clash, we fight—every argument ending with me pinned against the wall, craving more. He’s ruthless, relentless, and utterly irresistible. I should walk away. ...

I Can’t Get Enough… But What Happens When Desire Becomes an Obsession? Hi, I’m Amber, and I’m a nymphomaniac. No, that’s not just a fun way of saying I love sex—it means the craving never stops. No matter how many steamy encounters, risky rendezvous, or late-night cam sessions, the itch is never satisfied. ✔ Hooking up with strangers online? Been there. ✔ A little extra-curricular fun at work? Done that. ✔ Crossing the line with the hot neighbor next door? Oh yeah. But when my desires spiral out of control, I find myself in rehab, forced to confront the truth: Is my hunger...

Do you want help with a family member who is struggling with alcohol addiction? If you have a family member that is struggling with alcoholism, then this book is for you. Get insight into the alcoholic mind from someone who has been through the disease and recovery. The good news is there is a solution! Pick up this book to find out how!

At thirty four years of age, dark fiction scribe Micha Tudor has finally had enough trying to eke out a living as an author. Suicide, that eternal taboo of man, could potentially provide an escape hatch for an exhausted spirit seeking a reset button. But when Micha awakens in a world of his own making - a world straight from the pages of his new novel - he soon discovers the afterlife is far from an escape hatch or even oblivion. For in Hadley Grove, monsters walk the streets. Towering creatures composed of mercury who seem tied to the town’s ancient church brooding above the oceanic ...

He’s cruel, relentless, and living down the hall. Now he knows her secret and he’s not letting go. Tessa I had one plan. Stay invisible, count the days, and keep my body’s humiliating condition under wraps. But Riven makes that impossible. He’s the school’s bad boy, my new stepbrother, and the bully who never misses a chance to watch me unravel. His taunts cut deep, but it’s his eyes that see too much. He found out what I leak, and instead of being disgusted, he’s obsessed. Now every glance, every brush of contact, turns crueler, sharper, and more addictive. I hate him. I ...

Secrets can kill. Harper wanted Sean to dominate her, to degrade her...and she loved every second of it. Every hot, gasping-for-breath, clenching-the-sheets moment. She loved to have him looming over her, dictating her every move. She got off on it. But now it's too real. Their relationship has gotten complicated and dark, fast.

A new wellness app promised to silence her demons. Instead, it let her hear someone else’s. Now, the thoughts of a captive woman are screaming in her head, and a killer knows she’s listening. For recovering addict Allison, sobriety is a fragile, quiet hell. She craves the sharp, artificial focus of her past and would do anything to feel in control again. When she discovers Beta Sync—a leaked neuro-tech app that promises mental clarity—it feels like a miracle. But the "clarity" is something else entirely: the unfiltered consciousness of everyone around her. It's an intoxicating new ...

Years after a near-fatal car accident almost destroyed his career, Erik Patko has finally returned to the Broadway stage, starring alongside his famous parents Lord Justyn and Lady Rebecca in a revival of the classic musical Opera Ghost. Even his girlfriend Priscilla joins the chorus after her college graduation, but instead of soaking up the accolades, Erik is tormented by his leading lady and growing more and more dependent on opiates to manage his anxiety and depression. When a masked vigilante fighting hate crimes in the Theatre District enacts vengeance on his tormentors, Erik fears ...

Abandoning a recession-plagued America for the easy money of Southeast Asia's lucrative but highly illegal investment scam industry, Don Rouse must navigate through a sordid world of drug addicts, deviants, prostitutes and professional con men in order to achieve his lifelong dream of making it big. But his world is suddenly turned upside down when the police show up and his boss goes missing. After a chance meeting with the alluring but enigmatic Jessica, Don is plunged into a high stakes mystery that could very well put an end to his criminal career and perhaps even his life. From the ...

“Newman’s prose is a bombardment.” — The Nation “It’s bright lights and dark shadows, and it’s certainly not for the fainthearted.” — Crime author Paul Brazill “WITNESS the flowering of increasingly evil acts.” — Alasdair McLeod, Author and Poet “Newman WRITES with a FLAMETHROWER.” — Crime author Timothy Hallinan “Newman is still capable of throwing flames.” — People, Things, and Literature “Newman is the strange new NORMAL.” — Sliced Magazine Roll up, roll up... Meet The Bearded Lady, The Strongman, Jimmy the Tightrope Walker, and Joey the Clown. ...

What if Edgar Allan Poe's masterpieces happened in our world? Step into five chilling retellings that transport Poe's most terrifying tales into the 21st century, where ancient horrors take on frightening new forms. From sterile hospital corridors to corporate boardrooms, from contaminated mansions to digital graveyards, these stories prove that the human capacity for guilt, obsession, and revenge transcends any era. "The Monitor" - A night-shift nurse's paranoia spirals into murder, where the tell-tale heart becomes the relentless beeping of medical equipment, and guilt echoes through ...

In Jordan Castro’s inventive, funny, and surprisingly tender first novel, we follow a young man over the course of a single morning as he tries and fails to write an autobiographical novel, finding himself instead drawn into the infinite spaces of Twitter, quotidian rituals, and his own mind. The Novelist: A Novel pays tribute to Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine and Thomas Bernhard’s Woodcutters, but in the end is a wholly original novel about language and consciousness, the internet and social media, and addiction and recovery.