I’m finally settling into my new life in Chicago, but now the man who hates me most in this city knows my new secret. It seems like they just keep stacking up. I can’t tell anyone about who, or rather, what my mother was, or the entire supernatural world will have questions I don’t have answers to. So, for now, I just have to trust that Roman will keep his mouth shut. It’s time to move on. I can’t be with Mason, but it’s time for my apprenticeship with Dr. Sebastian Vincent to begin, and he’s not simply the smooth flirt I thought. For the first time in my life, I’ve met someone who knows pain and trauma in the same way I do, and it’s hard not to look at him with a fresh perspective. No one has ever really understood me, but sometimes it feels like we are two sides of the same coin. This is Chicago though, and nothing can stay “normal” for too long. A woman who was declared dead a year ago just wandered back into the hospital and whispers a word that sends chills through every member of the Night Council: necromancer. If that’s true, if that’s how this really happened, why did he come to Chicago, and who is he really looking to bring back from the dead? There are a lot of dangerous people buried in this city. Now that I’ve found people I care to protect, I’m about to learn just how savage I can become to keep them safe.

Raised in the heart of the 305, Asaad ‘Wolfe’ Calloway is vetted in the streets. Wolfe, a pseudonym he gained after fighting his way through the Miami streets like an animal, was born savage. His good looks, nor his attitude are for the faint at heart. Therefore, he only surrounds himself with those who will protect him by any means necessary, his two brothers, Law and Blaze Calloway. With no love in his heart, he samples all thirty-two flavors of women in his city until he finds the one woman he wants but can’t have. Indigo is the girl of Kasen Franklin, who is expanding his West Coast empire into Miami territory. Pandora’s Box is just too tempting not to open, and he doesn’t care who he has to go through to get her. Law, the most levelheaded of the three serves as his brother’s right-hand man. Stepping up in rank to the empire that was built on his father’s back, he’s able to make more money to support himself and the only girl who has his heart, Shiya. With more responsibilities on his plate, will he let his relationship with the streets interfere with his personal relationship? As the baby of the family, the only things Blaze Calloway is concerned with are smoking good, eating good, and living his best life. For him, that means getting money fast and blowing it even faster. When tragedy sweeps the Calloway family up like a tornado, will he step out of his brothers’ shadows for good and prove that he can be a boss in his own right? When you’re at the top, there’s nowhere to go but down. Wolfe’s enemies want him dead right when his family needs him most. Witness the rise and fall of one of Miami’s most legendary hustlers. If you thought Law and Blaze were savage, get ready to read about the most savage of them all. Please Note: This is a prequel to the In the Arms of a Savage Series. Read the full series in order: The Most Savage of Them All: Wolfe Calloway’s Story In the Arms of a Savage (1-3) Built for a Savage: Blaze and Camille’s Love Story A Savage Calloway Christmas

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Studies. Film. SAVAGE PAGEANT recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed Hollywood's show animals up until its closure in 1969. In it, Stark explores the concept of US American spectacle and its historic ties to celebrity culture, the maternal body, racist taxonomies, the mistreatment of animals, and ecological violence. With a hybrid, documentary poetics, SAVAGE PAGEANT reveals how we attempt to narrate and control geographical space and how ghosts (remainders, the sketch, unfinished stories) collapse the tidy corners of our collective, accumulative histories.

Thousands of years ago an ancient peace-loving alien culture called the Argolians visited Earth and helped humanity take hold, and as a result, took the little planet under its wing. Later, after watching most of their race brutally slaughtered by the Kontarians, the last few remaining Argolians flee with the object the evil Kontarians are lusting after—the Stone of Unarl, a living gem that possesses incredible power. Now the Argolians are back to help save Earth, the last of the Argolians’ sister planets, which is in danger of being destroyed by the Kontarians. Aware that the sudden appearance of a group of aliens on Earth would cause more havoc than good, the Argolians have chosen one reluctant human to try and save the planet. After intensive training, John Savage takes command of the Argolians’ “gift,” a small craft that is one of the most powerful weapons in the universe. Can Earth’s newest hero succeed? To do so Savage must not only overcome his own fears of failure, but also defeat the Kontarian spies placed on Earth years before. These aliens will do anything to possess Savage’s ship and delay his training until the Kontarian fleet arrives.