Fleeing a dangerous ex, she doesn't expect to run straight into the arms of someone who should be far, far scarier.... Hera Watterson's flight from her small town into the Sierras hasn't gone unnoticed. The guys after her really want the evidence she's trying to bring to Reno. Fleeing isn't easy when her ex-fiancé is a drug dealer…and the chief of police. It's even harder when her car breaks down and a super-hot guy with strange eyes starts getting into her business. Radiator overheating? Sure. But that doesn't have anything to do with the molten feeling spreading through her core. Shapeshifter Blake Fournier has been wandering around the wilderness for months, often coming back to stay at his family's ranch for just a couple of days before heading out again. His inner mountain lion is bored and listless, tired of the routine of hunts, fights, and one-night stands. His first impression of the woman stuck on the side of the road? She's absolutely gorgeous. Second impression? Completely paranoid. But once he gets to know her, his lion only wants to wander into one last place: her heart. This sexy shapeshifter novelette includes a happily-ever-after as well as explicit love scenes and naughty language. It is intended for adults. additional keywords: free book, paranormal romance, big cat shifter, mountain lion, cougar, shapeshifter, steamy romance, California, ranch, forest, woods, adventure

In these eight darkly comic stories, Tom Howard explores the instincts for violence and tenderness that mark his character's lives. A brother and sister wander the pier after a deadly plague destroys most of humanity. A high school bully struggles to overcome his demons. A man in the grips of dementia is visited by his children's ghosts. The people in these blistering tales grapple with past mistakes, trying to navigate their way toward redemption and resurrection and failing often—but always with a ferocious heart. Their unforgettable voices guide us through schoolyards, cemeteries, drive-in theaters, and the rich landscapes of their own imaginations. Equal parts funny, tragic, and wise, Fierce Pretty Things is a striking debut that teaches us how to live in a world as cruel as it is beautiful.

Fierce, savage, wild, ruthless: how do you like your shifters? Fierce Mates Firsts is a collection of FOUR first-in-series Fierce Mates books. Dive into each of these different shifter groups and be prepared to have your heart stolen by more than one beastly hottie! This collection includes: Fierce Wanderer Savage Yearning Wild Homecoming Ruthless Misfit Perfect for someone new to Liza Street's Fierce Mates books and looking to get an overall introduction, or for a die-hard fan who wants each series starter at her fingertips in one handy book, Fierce Mates Firsts will appeal to fans of steamy, suspenseful shifter romance. Buy your copy and fall in love four times today! Additional keywords: big cat shifters, mountain lion, cougar, California, Montana, Washington, forest, mountains, suspense, action and adventure, supernatural, shapeshifters, werewolves, vampires, free book, freebie, free pnr

The shifters of the Rock Creek Clan find even more suspense, danger, and romance in these three books. Grizzly shifter Ian, a former playboy, falls hard for the quiet bookstore owner who was his one-night-stand. Polar bear shifter Nolan is tasked with protecting his one true love—and she’s betrothed to someone else. Hercules, a dragon shifter, has been struggling to come to terms with the modern world. Falling in love with a human woman is the last thing he wants…but she turns out to be exactly who he needs. If you love steamy shifter romance that brims with suspense, humor, and feels, one-click this collection today!

A sexy little librarian who wants to learn about love is impossible for this jaguar shifter to resist. Dew is having filthy thoughts about "S," the library patron who writes her letters and poems that make her heart flutter. When an outgoing shipment accidentally leaves behind a book due to go to his address, she decides to deliver it herself. What better way to learn about love and romance than by meeting the man who has used his words to win her heart? Stetson, a jaguar shifter, knows he’s exactly where he belongs: in the Junkyard, a place where all the bad shifters are sent. Reading books and fantasizing about the sweet librarian he’s never laid eyes on are his two main pleasures in life. But when his dangerous past returns to haunt him, he’ll have to shrug off his quiet, bookish ways and resurrect the beast inside of him in order to save his mate. USA Today bestselling author Liza Street delivers the sweetness, the suspense, and the sexytimes in Filthy Cowboy, the fourth standalone novel in the Junkyard Shifters series. If you love brooding cowboy shifters who pine for the women they love, and shy heroines who don’t allow themselves to be pushed around, this book is for you! Buy your copy today and embrace the "trash" in "trashy romance!" Additional keywords: paranormal prison, supernatural prison, shapeshifter western romance, shapeshifter, shifter cowboy, paranormal suspense, paranormal romance for adults, jaguar shifter, California, Sierra Nevada, forest, mountains

Many generations ago was destroyed the arctic stronghold of Drauglir. Five hundred years later, rumours spread of the evil demigod’s second coming, with terrible consequences for the world of Lindormyn. In the remote northern town of Nordwas a ramshackle group is assembled by the ambitious warrior Nibulus, under the guidance of a mage-priest, to set off on the long and perilous journey back to Melhus to ensure that Drauglir is properly despatched this time round. This quest includes two foreign mercenaries, three bickering priests, a young esquire . . . and, last but not least, Bolldhe the unsociable ‘wanderer’. Their eventful progress through a desolate terrain embroils them regularly with a wide array of races, creatures, giants and sorcerers – and with terrifying adventures which will affect each of them differently.

Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments—hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author’s “mesmerizing, thrilling” truths within its pages—has been selected by the publication’s book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick’s groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O’Brien has called “the principal crux of female despair”: the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of “urban peasants,” Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother’s romantic depression over the early death of her husband. Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. These women with their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick’s struggle to find herself in love and in work. As Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York, arguing and remembering the past, each wins the reader’s admiration: the caustic and clear-thinking daughter, for her courage and tenacity in really talking to her mother about the most basic issues of their lives, and the still powerful and intuitively-wise old woman, who again and again proves herself her daughter’s mother. Unsparing, deeply courageous, Fierce Attachments is one of the most remarkable documents of family feeling that has been written, a classic that helped start the memoir boom and remains one of the most moving examples of the genre. “[Gornick] stares unflinchingly at all that is hidden, difficult, strange, unresolvable in herself and others—at loneliness, sexual malice and the devouring, claustral closeness of mothers and daughters...[Fierce Attachments is] a portrait of the artist as she finds a language—original, allergic to euphemism and therapeutic banalities—worthy of the women that raised her.”—The New York Times

Gracie Boswell's got a charmed bullet, a brand new posse, and a pack of outlaw vampires to kill. The Rift Territory has a big vampire problem—and charmslinger Gracie Boswell aims to be the solution. When a charming local layabout and an old competitor elbow their way into Gracie's posse, she's forced to at least pretend to play nice...but trust is scarce in the west, and smart bounty hunters always sleep with one eye open. This collection includes Blood Bounty, Blood Beast, and Blood Ballad, the first three novels in USA Today best-selling author Liza Street’s gothic western series. It’s packed full of outlaw vampires, sinister fae, and good old-fashioned treachery. Get ready for a wild ride through the dark and dangerous west!

The Empire will kill him for stealing this ship... but they have to catch it first! To the Empire the Wanderer was just another booby-trapped ship to claim, and Jess was just another worthless slave who could be sacrificed in the process. Things didn’t go to plan. Jess survived the dangers, and when he sat in the pilot’s chair the ancient ship came to life for the first time in centuries. Acting on instinct Jess seized the chance, firing up the engines and fleeing the Imperial forces. Now Jess and the ancient self-aware ship are on the run, their freedom and their very existence on the line. The smart thing to do would be to run like hell and never stop, but Jess finds he can’t ignore pleas for help from those in danger. With the powerful Wanderer at his command he can truly make a difference... but at what cost? Buy this collection of the first three books and see why tens of thousands of people have loved following the Wanderer’s journey, leaving comments including “In the end, I was gripping the arms of my chair as I rooted for the heroes.”, “A fast paced, can't-put-it-down Sci-fi.” and “One of the best books I've read this year.”