Rejected by her mate and betrayed by her pack, Delilah doesn’t need a mate, let alone two. When Delilah’s alpha tries to sell her to another pack, she runs rather than submit. No one will look for a shifter in the big city. But when she encounters a strange alpha at the freaking grocery store, she realizes she might not be as safe as she thought. But alphas Graham and Jude are as relentless as they are sweet and soon Delilah’s caught between them – right where she wants to be. Graham and Jude are nothing like Delilah expected, and as she grows closer to them, she begins to wonder if this could be the start of something real. But her old pack is still out there, and one day she’ll have to run. Again. There’s no real home for a lone wolf. If Delilah wants a real future, she’ll need to trust Graham and Jude with her past. But she’s already been betrayed by her pack and her former mate… can she put her heart on the line again? Part of the Rejected & Claimed series of STANDALONE rejected mates novels. No cliffs, just all the lurve.

One rejected mate + two sexy werewolves = a match made in fated heaven? Harlow has been ready to stand at her mate’s side as he Ascends to the position of alpha for years. But he crushes that dream and wrenches her heart out when he chooses another female to be his mate. Unable to stay and witness her would-be mate’s continuing betrayal, Harlow flees to the small town of Forest Crest and finds work at a local vet. But malicious hunters are hot on her scent and she’s forced to seek Sanctuary with the enigmatic Gravecrest Pack where she’s drawn into the orbit of powerful Alpha Atlas and steadfast Beta Colt. Despite the pain of rejection, Harlow is captivated and craves both men. But can her heart whether the storm of possible rejection a second time? Or is she brave enough to reach for a connection that defies the norms of her shifter world? Part of the Rejected & Claimed series of STANDALONE rejected mates novels. No cliffs, just all the lurve.

Thirty and single? Well, getcha butt to the Gathering! Wait... what? Paisley Twynham is over the whole werewolf thing. It'd been a shock to be magically kidnapped and plopped in the middle of a werewolf gathering. Then she got kidnapped a second time, had the crap beat out of her, escaped, and then met two men who are supposed to be her mates. Yup, all kinds of "over" the Gathering. Her only salvations are her sisters and... the two men she can't help but drool over. Tall, muscular, sexy as hell, and for some reason, they want her fluffy ass. Maybe she doesn't hate werewolves as much as she thought... Chance and Hawkins don't quite have a solid Warden bond. Hawkins is holding back while Chance is slowly reaching the end of his patience after ten years of partnership. The only woman who might save them is Paisley. Seductive, curvaceous, vivacious Paisley Twynham. She's their Warden Born mate and Chance refuses to let Hawkins' past stand in the way of their future. But something else hides in their path that threatens to end their mating before it begins. Or rather, someone.

Whenever wolf shifter Roni Axton is near Marcus Fuller, there's a crackle of sexual awareness that's intoxicating ... and deeply annoying. Marcus is a pack enforcer who oozes power, but Roni is lethal in her own right. His possessive gaze makes one thing clear. Marcus has singled her out for seduction, and he wants to make her sit up and beg. When a brutal attack by a jackal pack forces them to work together, it's the perfect opportunity for Marcus to chip away at her defenses-- until he falls into his own trap, completely unprepared for the intensity of their connection. For Marcus, claiming Roni once will mean needing her forever.

Appearances can be deceiving and some bites are much worse than their bark. Joanie’s dream has always been to give something back. The kitty cat love of her life, Shubert, was her first rescue, and she is bound and determined to make volunteering at the Saving Furry Lives Shelter part of her reality. She rescues a wolf pup and it bites her, setting off a chain of events she doesn’t anticipate. Dr. Royce Buchanan is tired of the dating scene. While the women he’s met through the Shifting Hearts Dating Agency are lovely, he wants a mate to settle down with. So far, all he’s found are a lot of clingy women with doctor fixations. He’s been burned one too many times before and prefers to get his kink on at Ventures, a local BDSM club catering to shifters. But when an injured woman shows up in his emergency room and his wolf goes on high alert, his safe world is about to go up in flames. Someone is gunning for shifters and to keep this new wolf safe, Royce might have to break his own cardinal rule and get involved, even if it could cost him his heart.

Sometimes a gal’s gotta admit defeat and decide how many cats she’s gonna have when she’s old and crazy… Chloe Hall has tried every dating website out there and continues to connect with duds. Then her mother signs her up for a new dating—mating—service. Human or shifter, everyone is welcome as long as they’re looking for love and not their next bang. Chloe doesn’t care if her mate roars and sheds or howls and smells like wet dog. He’ll be hers. It’s not until she meets Holt—a massive, muscular, totally gorgeous werecougar—that she realizes she really will become a cat lady, and he absolutely drives her crazy. Werecougar Holt Moore’s animal is restless and craves things that scare the shit outta him: a mate, cubs, and a white picket fence. It doesn’t seem to remember that cougars are solitary animals in the wild, which also applies to his human half. His cat is too dominant to tolerate other shifters and when he’s on two legs, he towers over every human he meets. He’s big and mean and that’s how he likes it. Then he meets Chloe—curvy, luscious, human Chloe—and realizes he needs to add “possessive” and “biggest asshole on the planet” to his list of traits. Well, not all relationships are smooth sailing. The M&M Mating Agency – They deal in matings, not chocolate.

After my mate rejected me, I wanted to kill him. Instead, I ran away-which nearly killed me... A year ago, everything was different. I had just left my home, joining the infamous Mountainside Pack. The daughter of an omega wolf, I've always been prized-but not as prized as I would be if my new packmates found out my secret. But when my fated mate-Mountainside's Alpha-rejected me in front of his whole pack council and my secret got out, I realized I had one choice. Going lone wolf was the only option I had, and I took it. Now I live in Muncie, hiding in plain sight. If the wolves ever left the mountains surrounding the city, I'd be in big trouble. Good thing that the truce between the vampires and my people is shaky at best and Muncie? It's total vamp territory. Thanks to my new vamp roomie, I get a pass, and I try to forget all about the call of the wolf. It's tough, though. I... I just can't forget my embarrassment-and my anger-from that night. And then he shows up and my chance at forgetting flies out the damn window. Ryker Wolfson. He was supposed to be my fated mate, but he chose his pack over our bond. At least, he did-but now that he knows what I've been hiding, he wants me back. But doesn't he remember? I told him I'll never be his mate, and there isn't a single thing he can do to change my mind. To Ryker, that sounds like a challenge. And if there's one thing I know about wolf shifters, it's that they can never resist a challenge. Just like I'm finding it more difficult than I should to resist him.

The Optical Unconscious is a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art according to certain sacred commandments and self-fulfilling truths. The account of modernism presented here challenges the vaunted principle of "vision itself." And it is a very different story than we have ever read, not only because its insurgent plot and characters rise from below the calm surface of the known and law-like field of modernist painting, but because the voice is unlike anything we have heard before. Just as the artists of the optical unconscious assaulted the idea of autonomy and visual mastery, Rosalind Krauss abandons the historian's voice of objective detachment and forges a new style of writing in this book: art history that insinuates diary and art theory, and that has the gait and tone of fiction. The Optical Unconscious will be deeply vexing to modernism's standard-bearers, and to readers who have accepted the foundational principles on which their aesthetic is based. Krauss also gives us the story that Alfred Barr, Meyer Shapiro, and Clement Greenberg repressed, the story of a small, disparate group of artists who defied modernism's most cherished self-descriptions, giving rise to an unruly, disruptive force that persistently haunted the field of modernism from the 1920s to the 1950s and continues to disrupt it today. In order to understand why modernism had to repress the optical unconscious, Krauss eavesdrops on Roger Fry in the salons of Bloomsbury, and spies on the toddler John Ruskin as he amuses himself with the patterns of a rug; we find her in the living room of Clement Greenberg as he complains about "smart Jewish girls with their typewriters" in the 1960s, and in colloquy with Michael Fried about Frank Stella's love of baseball. Along the way, there are also narrative encounters with Freud, Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard. To embody this optical unconscious, Krauss turns to the pages of Max Ernst's collage novels, to Marcel Duchamp's hypnotic Rotoreliefs, to Eva Hesse's luminous sculptures, and to Cy Twombly's, Andy Warhol's, and Robert Morris's scandalous decoding of Jackson Pollock's drip pictures as "Anti-Form." These artists introduced a new set of values into the field of twentieth-century art, offering ready-made images of obsessional fantasy in place of modernism's intentionality and unexamined compulsions.

Discusses the differences between "open" and "closed" texts, or, texts that actively involve the reader and texts that evoke a limited, predetermined response from the reader. -- Back cover.

This collection contains a series of nine books about Jack Addison's adventures."Any monster is a lover if you're brave enough."Jack Addison. Son of a world famous monster hunter. Irresistible jerk. Monster-curious.Roux Chat-Bonnes. Ginger. Furry. Claws like razors and a tongue to match!At just nineteen, Jack's fresh out of a prestigious academy, set to make a name for himself as a monster hunter in a world where people need protection from strange and dangerous creatures.Raised to see nonhumans as monsters to be eradicated, or at the very least-inferior beings, he soon finds out that he's been taught lies, and his initial distrust of creatures turns into fascination that goes beyond anything his father could imagine.After an encounter with a giant spider, Jack falls down a rabbit hole of affairs with werewolves, kitsune, a centaur, a merman, a tentacle creature called Nessie, and even a vampire!But all of those dalliances fade in comparison to his one true heart throb-Roux Chat-Bonnes, a cat-like being, and his most vicious rival. As brave as he is infuriating, and as furry as he is sexy, Roux is the moral compass Jack wishes he didn't have.If he ever wants to win Roux's heart, he needs to prove that he's more than just a handsome jerk sneaking around with any monster he can get his hands on, but a man brave enough to do what's right, even if it makes him unpopular. Even if that means standing up to his famous father.POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Themes: living up to expectations, pride, dreams, self-discovery, tolerance, fame, monster hunting, inter-species relations, enemies to lovers, opposites attract, prejudice, tentacles, centaur, merman, mermaid, kitsune, Siberia, trust, vampire, Transylvania, werewolf, drugs, Paris, deception, secretsGenre: M/M romantic erotica, horror-comedyContains scorching hot, explicit scenesLength: 115,000 wordsIn this serial, each episode encompasses a single event from Jack Addison's career, but while they are partially self-contained, the romantic arc and Jack's personal journey, develop over time, so it's best to not read the stories out of turn.