#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson delivers a powerful historical romance, starring a woman of mystery—and the enemy who could be her one true love… Tara’s life is shrouded in secrets. All she knows is that her past is somehow entwined with a dark emerald—the jewel identifying the lost heir to Tower Twyll. Banished from Twyll by his brutal half brother, Rhys has carved out a new life as the Outlaw. But then he captures a raven-haired beauty who not only inflames his desire, but carries the legendary jewel that threatens his very quest for revenge. From the first, the infamous criminal stokes a passion seductive yet frightening in Tara. For if she is the true heir to Twyll, then she is the sworn enemy of the man who has captured her heart…

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. A high schooler finds her drawings corrupted by a haunted stone she inherits from a suicidal underground cartoonist. A video game addict discovers a vast, hidden dimension to colonize in the walls of his girlfriend's apartment. A philosophy student seeks anonymous Craigslist sex with the ubiquitous devil that stalks her. In this short fiction collection from Jeanne Thornton, author of The Dream of Doctor Bantam (a Lambda Literary Award finalist), reality and relationships blur, creating a queer pulp experience with a literary sensibility, a hallucinatory journey into despair... and, possibly, toward hope. "The gorgeousness of Thornton's writings help sustain the worlds she creates... That's the kind of seductiveness these stories have. In reading them, you become strange and dreamy in the same way they are."--Torrey Peters "Jeanne has this way of writing self-consciousness inside these perfect, self-contained worlds with signifiers that make them seem like they are the world we live in but if that world were... I don't even know exactly. Mystifying and uncomfortable and bulging with complicated, contradictory feeling just below the surface of everything."--Imogen Binnie

'Disturbingly compelling' Guardian A blackly comic tale about two children you would never want to meet - from the script writer for Killing Eve Season Two and director of Promising Young Woman Set in the Cornish town of Fowey, all is not as idyllic as the beautiful seaside town might seem. The body of a young woman is discovered in the nets of a fishing boat. It is established that the woman was murdered. Most are shocked and horrified. But there is somebody who is not - a twelve-year-old girl. She is delighted; she loves murders. Soon she is questioning the inhabitants of the town in her own personal investigation. But it is a bit boring on her own. Then Miles Giffard, a similarly odd twelve-year-old boy, arrives in Fowey with his mother, and they start investigating together. Oh, and also playing games that re-enact the murders. Just for fun, you understand... A book about two twelve-year-olds that is definitely not for kids.

Dark Ruby: One night of forbidden passion with Trevin, that was all it took to change Lady Gwynn's life forever, giving the lady her most valuable treasure, a little son whom she had to raise in the home of Trevin's longtime enemy.

For hundreds of years magic users and elves have been hunted and executed in Menzel, but under the new king they are to be...collected? Part of the Manifested series, Dark Emerald is the first installment and lets you into a world of terrible experiments and manifested powers. Filled with betrayal, dark secrets, lies and murder this series is fast paced and exciting. Ayvre, is for all intensive purposes, an average young woman just trying to help her family survive after the untimely death of her father, so when she is captured and taken into a dungeon she can not fathom why. There she is experimented on and bonded to a man of a race she thought had been extinct. Follow as Ayvre and Grayson try to survive each other and the procarious bonds thrust on them and pave a new path of light. She is but a young woman made of sharp edges that life has chipped and roughened, full of darkness and vengeance but she is brave enough to seek light in the shadows, flame in obsidian. She is a survivor. A warrior. Together with the stoic dark elf she is bound to-- her souls reflection of pain and loss--they may just have what it takes to reshape themselves, their destinies and reform each other, as long as they don't kill each other in the process. But will they be enough to save their friends and other innocent magic users from a terrible king bent on using them for his own vile ambitions? Find out in this epic page turner. Strap in because T.L. Thorne will take you on a gripping ride!