Hel became an energy vampire at seventeen and reduced her first lover to ashes. Forty years later, she still looks seventeen. Hel's life is teaching hyperactive boys, roller derby, and worrying about paying her mother's hospital bills. Nick Jones, federal anti-magic cop, has a secret, too. Magic turns him on, to his shame. This makes it hard for Nick when he's assigned to recruit Hel to his new case. Nick feels guilty for his attraction to a teenager. Hel adores Nick's yummy energy. If he learns she’s a vampire, he'll send her to Hinky Guantanamo...if she doesn't kill him first. But can they keep their hands off each other? ____________________________________________________ REVIEWS “an enjoyable fun quick read…. This story takes place in the same world as her Brass Bed series, but because the characters are totally different, it won’t hurt to read this one out of order. If you haven’t read anything else by Jennifer Stevenson yet, I would recommend this one as a good introduction.” — Rebecca Jaxon “I finished Taste of You and I loved it! I immediately kindled the Stagehands one to read next–very impressed!” — Nicole Matos “…a fun quirky vampire paranormal romance … Have a good laugh, a cry, a flutter of nerves waiting in anticipation, with the problems they have to face. Read this hot, steamy, sexy book and meet these horny Characters.” — Melissa Craig “This book was very entertaining. It made me laugh out loud at some points. I will be reading more from this author. I couldn’t put it down!!!” — tattooma “This was an easy, fun read. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to laugh.” — Magelet87 “I have been waiting eagerly, impatiently, hungrily for Stevenson’s next book in the Hinky Chicago world and A Taste of You does not disappoint. I bought it one afternoon last weekend, read it that night without putting it down, and now… I’m waiting again. I can’t get enough of this world. … Stevenson’s Hinky Chicago owes nothing to any existing magic-touched world. It’s the freshest and most creative concept imaginable… and the most convincing. Not only that, the writing is intelligent, snappy, and utterly absorbing, the plot is fast-paced and enjoyably wild, and the characters are fun to be around. This is wonderful stuff. Wonderful. Encore! Encore!” — Elaine McCarthy “ECM” “I ended up actually really enjoying this book. It was a nice fresh take on the vampire type genre where instead of living off blood…The book was quite entertaining, but what I ended up liking most about the book was how funny it was. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a fun quick read.” — LyzzieB “This is my first book by this author and I really enjoyed it… I enjoyed all the roller derby action and the cool names the girls had given themselves. I especially enjoyed all the names for the different moves the girls would put on people.” — Squeak “The Dragon Mother”

Fraud cop Jewel Heiss has too much of a good thing. A hot con artist is her new partner and a bossy sex demon is her new booty slave. Now she’s undercover, investigating the Venus Machine, which will make her irresistable to all men! With four con artists vying for possession, it can’t really work, right? Jewel sits in the velvet chair to prove the Venus Machine is a fountain of flimflam. Looks like she’s wrong about that one…

Aren't you tired of doing everything right? Wouldn't you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong? GOING TO HELL, WITH THE PERFECT HANDBAG Beth is fifty, dumped by her husband for the babysitter, jobless, skill-less, homeless, cashless. She’s about to jump in front of a bus when she meets Delilah, recruiter for the "Regional Office" and receives an offer she can’t refuse: become a succubus for the Second Circle of Hell. Heartbroken, Beth decides to use the powers of her new sex demon body and the remains of her thrown-away life to track down her ex-husband and find out why he dumped her. But Beth can’t get any information without help from her team, and she can’t accept their help until she learns something about what she has become—a coed demon slut—who she’s always really been, and who she wants to be from now on. The first adventure in the Coed Demon Sluts series! HERE’S THE DEAL Tempt three people a month for thirty pieces of antique silver coins, base pay. Going the distance earns a nice bonus. Get an indestructible succubus body that can be redesigned minute-to-minute by size, shape, color, whatever. Never try on a bra again. Eat at least 4500 calories a day to stay thin. All sex is great sex.

A rock starlet whose biological clock is ticking... An ancient sex demon under orders to make a goddess out of the starlet... A precocious Parisian teen with a bottomless bank account and a stalker obsession for the starlet... And a son of vodou whose life tangles with the others as time runs out for him to claim his rightful title in France... Four lovers. Ancient power. Modern passion. Is love enough to protect their sanity from immortality? _______________________________________________________ "Jennifer Stevenson is the mistress of magic, combining voudou, music, and the call of true love in a unique melange. In Walking on Sunshine, Stevenson makes the ancient seem new again, the ordinary seem exotic, and the otherworldly more real than we ever dreamed it could be. Bravo!” — Mindy Klasky, USA Today bestselling author of the Jane Madison Series

Defrocked Hindu love god seeks virgin amnesiac runaway bride! Sent to Los Angeles by her Delhi family when she was only nine, Rathi grows up into a prim, virginal overachiever. Now she’s a lonely, workaholic attorney in a high-power women’s rights firm in Chicago. Having coffee with the mailroom boy would be a career-limiting move. Kamadeva, once the Hindu god of lusty love, has never forgotten his long lost wife. She stomped out on him after he got demoted via flamethrower by an angry Shiva. After 500 years as a sex demon, he finally finds her! But Rathi has reincarnated so often that she doesn’t remember Kama. Now she can’t find her love button with both hands. And he’s still the happy-go-lucky idiot she left. Can he revive her goddess memories before Shiva’s rage fries him to a crisp...again? And will she still want to dance with her underachiever cupid?

Aren't you tired of doing everything right?Wouldn't you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong?____________________________________________________Cricket's family may be ready for their 98-year-old great-grandma to go gently into the good night, but she sure as hell isn't. So when hell comes calling in the form of Delilah, she's ready to sign on the dotted "succubus" line.Army brat Amanda has spent her life letting everyone else call the shots. With a shiny new contract and a shape-shifting body as tough as titanium, she's ready to call some shots of her own--on the basketball court. Now roommates at the Lair, this odd couple are ready to set the Regional Office on its ear with history’s first coed demon basketball tournament--and to discover that you're never too old or too shy to find new friendships--or love.The fourth adventure in the Coed Demons Sluts series! Read less Print length 371 pagesLanguage EnglishPublication date June 21, 2017File size 770 KBPage Flip EnabledWord Wise Aren't you tired of doing everything right?Wouldn't you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong?____________________________________________________Cricket's family may be ready for their 98-year-old great-grandma to go gently into the good night, but she sure as hell isn't. So when hell comes calling in the form of Delilah, she's ready to sign on the dotted "succubus" line.Army brat Amanda has spent her life letting everyone else call the shots. With a shiny new contract and a shape-shifting body as tough as titanium, she's ready to call some shots of her own--on the basketball court. Now roommates at the Lair, this odd couple are ready to set the Regional Office on its ear with history’s first coed demon basketball tournament--and to discover that you're never too old or too shy to find new friendships--or love.The fourth adventure in the Coed Demons Sluts series! Read less Print length 371 pagesLanguage EnglishPublication date June 21, 2017File size 770 KBPage Flip EnabledWord Wise Enabled Next page Aren't you tired of doing everything right? Wouldn't you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong?____________________________________________________Cricket's family may be ready for their 98-year-old great-grandma to go gently into the good night, but she sure as hell isn't. So when hell comes calling in the form of Delilah, she's ready to sign on the dotted "succubus" line.Army brat Amanda has spent her life letting everyone else call the shots. With a shiny new contract and a shape-shifting body as tough as titanium, she's ready to call some shots of her own--on the basketball court. Now roommates at the Lair, this odd couple are ready to set the Regional Office on its ear with history’s first coed demon basketball tournament--and to discover that you're never too old or too shy to find new friendships--or love. The fourth adventure in the Coed Demons Sluts series!

Guns and bombs are children’s toys. A true war wages, and you’re invited. IT’S AN INVITATION you may not be able to accept if you want to, or decline if you don’t. It’s an invitation to fight in a war like no other; a war where loss is counted as gain, surrender as victory, and where the enemy you must face, an enemy of unimaginable superiority, is you. Contains Bonus Material.

On the border between Maine and Canada, a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place. Drugs, cash, weapons, even people-- and something ancient and powerful and evil ...

Harlequin® Romance brings you a collection of four new titles, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin© Romance box set includes: #4555 THE SHEIKH’S CONVENIENT PRINCESS Romantic Getaways by Liz Fielding To reconcile with his estranged father, Sheikh Ibrahim al-Ansari must find a bride! Luckily he has the perfect convenient princess in mind—his new assistant, Ruby Dance. Ruby agrees to a temporary marriage, but soon she can’t help craving the devastating beauty of the desert and the man who rules it… #4556 THE UNFORGETTABLE SPANISH TYCOON Romantic Getaways by Christy McKellen Once, Elena Jones shared an intense entanglement with striking Spaniard Caleb Araya, but it ended with both their hearts in tatters. When a sudden accident means the tycoon remembers nothing, Elena seizes the chance to make things right. But the closer they get, the more Elena realizes her own heart has never forgotten him… #4557 THE BILLIONAIRE OF CORAL BAY Romantic Getaways by Nikki Logan When gorgeous Richard Grundy arrives in Coral Bay, he sends Mila Nakano’s senses into overdrive. The secret billionaire prides himself on making decisions with his head…until he’s captivated by gentle, exotic Mila! Now he has the toughest job yet: persuading her to be Coral Bay’s newest bride! #4558 HER FIRST-DATE HONEYMOON Romantic Getaways by Katrina Cudmore Runaway bride Emma Fox is determined to gain her independence by using her would-be honeymoon in Venice to secure a temporary job with billionaire Matteo Vieri. Working together in his palazzo warms Matteo’s guarded heart… They’ve already shared a honeymoon, but will he ask Emma to walk down the aisle?

This "landmark of the American literary century" (Boston Globe) is finally published as one volume, appearing with a brilliant new introduction. Sixty years after the publication of his great modernist masterpiece, Call It Sleep, Henry Roth, a retired waterfowl farmer already in his late eighties, shocked the literary world with the announcement that he had written a second novel. It was called, he reported, Mercy of a Rude Stream, the title inspired by Shakespeare, and it followed the travails of one Ira Stigman, whose family had just moved to New York’s Jewish Harlem in that "ominous summer of 1914." "It is like hearing that…J. D. Salinger is preparing a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye," the New York Times Book Review pronounced, while Vanity Fair extolled Roth's new work as "the literary comeback of the century." Even more astonishing was that Roth had not just written a second novel but a total of four chronologically linked works, all part of Mercy of a Rude Stream. Dying in 1995 at the age of eighty-nine, Roth would not live to see the final two volumes of this tetralogy published, yet the reappearance of Mercy of a Rude Stream, a fulfillment of Roth's wish that these installments appear as one complete volume, allows for a twenty-first-century public to reappraise this late-in-life masterpiece, just as Call it Sleep was rediscovered by a new generation in 1964. As the story unfolds, we follow the turbulent odyssey of Ira, along with his extended Jewish family, friends, and lovers, from the outbreak of World War I through his fateful decision to move into the Greenwich Village apartment of his muse and older lover, the seductive but ultimately tragic NYU professor Edith Welles. Set in both the fractured world of Jewish Harlem and the bohemian maelstrom of the Village, Mercy of a Rude Stream echoes Nabokov in its portrayal of sexual deviance, and offers a harrowing and relentless family drama amid a grand panorama of New York City in the 1910s and Roaring 20s. Yet in spite of a plot that is fraught with depictions of menace, violence, and intense self-loathing, Mercy of a Rude Stream also contains a cathartic, even redemptive, overlay as "provocative as anything in the chapters of St. Augustine" (Los Angeles Times), in which an elder Ira, haunted by the sins of his youth, communes with his computer, Ecclesias, as he recalls how his family's traditional piety became corrupted by the inexorable forces of modernity. As Ira finally decides to get "the hell out of Harlem," his Proustian act of recollection frees him from the ravages of old age, and suddenly he is in his prime again, the entire telling of Mercy his final pronouncement. Mercy of a Rude Stream is that rare work of fiction that creates, through its style and narration, a new form of art. Indeed, the two juxtaposed voices—one of the "little boys swimming in a sea of glory," the other of one of those same boys "in old age being rudely swept to sea"—creates a counterpoint, jarring yet oddly harmonious, that makes this prophetic American work such an lasting statement on the frailties of memory and the essence of human consciousness. Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Complete Novels includes A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris Park, A Diving Rock on the Hudson, From Bondage, and Requiem for Harlem.