Private investigator Sloane Beaumont should be enjoying his recent engagement to eldritch god Azaethoth the Lesser, AKA Loch. Unfortunately, he doesn't have time for a pre-honeymoon period. The trouble starts with a deceptively simple missing persons case. That leads to the discovery of mass kidnappings, nefarious secret experiments, and the revelation that another ancient god is trying to bring about the end of the world by twisting humans into an evil army. Just another day at the office. Sloane does his best to juggle wedding planning, stopping his fiancé from turning the mailman inside out, and meeting his future godly in-laws while working the case, but they're also being hunted by a strange young man with incredible abilities. With the wedding date looming closer, Sloane and Loch must combine their powers to discover the truth--because it's not just their own happy-ever-after at stake, but the fate of the world....

For centuries, sailors have handed down stories of the giant squid. They say this mysterious monster of the deep chases ships and battles whales. They say it can weigh up to 1,000 pounds and that its eyes can be as big as a human head! Are these stories fact or fantasy? Find out in this exciting beginning reader.

Tattoo artist Catalina Brown falls head-over-tattoos for the stranger who asks for a tentacle tattoo on his...most sensitive body part. Normally, mixing business with pleasure isn't her thing, but he's a sensual magnet she's instantly attracted to, particularly after she experiences a wicked-hot artistic high while tattooing his every succulent inch. Tentacle shifter Calder Croft catches the female's scent when she passes his California marina, and he can't ignore the way she fires his blood. After meeting her, he's stunned to discover Cat has no idea she's a shifter about to come into her Change. It takes all his self-control to keep from taking the sexy woman right on the spot. Calder has to tell Cat the truth about her heritage. Will she accept her birthright as a shifter--or succumb to madness, forever losing their chance at love? Tentacles Shifter Erotic Romance Series Book 1 Taken by Him Book 2 Bared to Him

"She wondered if he would come again. Inside her." A New York City Marketing Exec suffering from a lack of excitement in the bedroom begins having extremely vivid--and perverted--dreams. Night after night they become more intense, until one night she finally gives in...to the eight-legged monster. Nightmare of the Tentacles is a naughty tale of a dirty old monster and his insatiable tentacles... and what may happen during one's innocent slumber! Lottie, our beautiful, beloved heroine, falls victim to the hideous monsters nightly intrusions (of which grow increasingly invasive) until one night he aggressively claims her--and she finally gives in. Join Lottie in this *Five Slithering Salacious Stars* tale about self discovery and true, hardcore, dirty-old-monster action!

Roland Smith makes his Scholastic debut with a middle-grade adventure novel about the search for a mysterious creature--the giant squid--in this sequel to CRYPTID HUNTERS.Marty and Grace O'Hara's globe-trotting parents disappeared while on assignment for a nature magazine, and now they're living with their Uncle Wolfe, a scientist fascinated by cryptids--creatures that appear in myths but haven't been proven to exist, such as the Loch Ness Monster. Wolfe is planning an expedition to New Zealand to track a giant squid, and he's rented a huge (and possibly haunted) freighter for the trip. But someone on board is determined to sabotage their mission--and if Marty and Grace keeping poking their noses into things, they might end up the saboteur's next victims!

Nothing brings two men-or one man and an ancient god-together like revenge. Private investigator Sloane sacrificed his career in law enforcement in pursuit of his parents' murderer. Like them, he is a follower of long-forgotten gods, practicing their magic and offering them his prayers... not that he's ever gotten a response. Until now. Azaethoth the Lesser might be the patron of thieves and tricksters, but he takes care of his followers. He's come to earth to avenge the killing of one of his favorites, and maybe charm the pants off the cute detective Fate has placed in his path. If he has his way, they'll do much more than bring a killer to justice. In fact, he's sure he's found the man he'll spend his immortal life with. Sloane's resolve is crumbling under Azaethoth's surprising sweetness, and the tentacles he sometimes glimpses escaping the god's mortal form set his imagination alight. But their investigation gets stranger and deadlier with every turn. To survive, they'll need a little faith... and a lot of mystical firepower.

An electric tale of apocalypse, sex and time travel from one of the Caribbean's most extraordinary cultural figures.

Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human being struggling to confront its lack of reason for being in the vast cosmos. This is the terrain of the horror genre. Eugene Thacker explores this situation in Tentacles Longer Than Night. Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Thacker considers the relationship between philosophy and the horror genre. But instead of taking fiction as the mere illustration of ideas, Thacker reads horror stories as if they themselves were works of philosophy, driven by a speculative urge to question human knowledge and the human-centric view of the world, ultimately leading to the limit of the human - thought undermining itself, in thought. Tentacles Longer Than Night is the third volume of the "horror of philosophy" trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the second volume, Starry Speculative Corpse.