A wonderful compilation of short stories revolving around the romance between women in Japan's Showa era. And while these women are in the 20th century, they dress in traditional kimonos that remind one of Japan’s Taisho era. Ranging from college romance to tales of mermaids, these stories will explore the theme of love between women during a turbulent era.

From the acclaimed mistress of the erotic historical romance comes this legendary novel of tempestuous passion . . . Desperate to avoid a loathsome match, Zena Turku ran from the glittering ballroom into a snowy night—and threw herself on the mercy of a darkly handsome stranger. He was her only hope of escape, her one guarantee of safe passage to her home in the Caucasus Mountains. But Prince Alexander Kuzan mistook the alluring redhead for a lady of the evening, the perfect plaything to relieve the boredom of his country journey. Only after her exquisite innocence was revealed did the most notorious rake in St. Petersburg realize that his delicious game of seduction had turned into a conquest of his heart. “[Susan Johnson] writes an extremely gripping story . . . with her knowledge of the period and her exquisite sensual scenes, she is an exceptional writer!”—Affaire de Coeur

What happens when the disabled yet gifted child of a very wealthy family meets the angry yet fabulously successful illegitimate child of a rock star?Jacqueline Marie “Bunny” Shunokoi is very miserable in her controlled, smothered life. And secretly, she is intersexed.She is bullied by other rich girls in her school, has no friends, and sees no future in her life for happiness as she is blind and has a learning disability, and is not allowed to pursue her dream as a singer until one day, out of nowhere, a princely heroine Margret Anne “No Regrets” Cooper, lead singer of “Bleeding Cyanide” steps in and rescues her from being beaten or worse by shallow, hateful school girls.They slowly explore love while sneaking around behind Bunny's parents' backs, performing rock concerts, being stalked by psychos and sex traffickers, attacked by street thugs and finally on the run from the law, accused of murders they did not commit.And to top it off Margret finds herself pregnant with life threatening complications!How will these two teenage rock stars on the lamb ever get back home?Will her parents understand? Will the two girls put their family to shame? Will they escape the long reaching grasp of a wealthy, murderous and sociopathic pedophile maniac who runs an international sex trafficking ring?How will the madness end?Join Bunny n Marge for an edge-of-your-seat roller coaster ride through all of the emotions as they live and love on the very edge of life while teetering on the brink of death!

How would you know if you keep looking the other way? ••• Merida Love Hollyn is a normal girl who lacks self confidence and she never fights back. And because of that, she often gets bullied by the mean girls at school, earning the nicknames, “Goldfish” “Ugly Duckling” and “Trash”. Her days was always bad as she describes it until a handsome basketball player named Jacob started to get curious about her ugliness.

The Untold Story of Lesbian Love in Japanese Anime and Comics... "By Your Side is the complete Yuri resource I only ever dreamed could exist. Decades in the making, this glorious collection surveys, analyzes, and contextualizes Yuri with unparalleled detail and enthusiasm. Friedman graces readers with illuminating insights as they follow her through a century of the genre's evolution and revolution. By sharing her extraordinary knowledge, she provides inquirers, scholars, and aficionados alike with a deeper appreciation and understanding of lesbian anime and manga while galvanizing them towards the next era of Yuri." -Nicki Bauman, Yurimother

Self-confident surgeon Melanie Sweet has never been afraid of men until she suffers a brutal trauma at the hands of an ex-boyfriend. The rapist is sent to prison, and in an effort to put her experience aside, Melanie volunteers in war-torn Kazakhstan. There she overcomes her debilitating fear and distrust of men through the healing power of true love when she meets Jake McCabe, the ex-Navy SEAL security expert sent undercover by her sister to protect her. Escaping hostile rebel forces, they rescue an orphaned child and return to Boston. Unknown to Melanie, the rapist has escaped from prison and is plotting his revenge against her and her family. She and Jake must unite to deal with the looming threat from the predator they had thought was dead. Sensuality Level: Sensual

For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people," complained a seventeenth-century Cossack. "Their actions are exceedingly rude. They do not take off their hats and do not bow to each other," huffed an eighteenth-century scholar. They are "children of nature" and "guardians of ecological balance," rhapsodized early nineteenth-century and late twentieth-century romantics. Even the Bolsheviks, who categorized the circumpolar foragers as "authentic proletarians," were repeatedly puzzled by the "peoples from the late Neolithic period who, by virtue of their extreme backwardness, cannot keep up either economically or culturally with the furious speed of the emerging socialist society."Whether described as brutes, aliens, or endangered indigenous populations, the so-called small peoples of the north have consistently remained a point of contrast for speculations on Russian identity and a convenient testing ground for policies and images that grew out of these speculations. In Arctic Mirrors, a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire and the Russian mind, Yuri Slezkine offers the first in-depth interpretation of this relationship. No other book in any language links the history of a colonized non-Russian people to the full sweep of Russian intellectual and cultural history. Enhancing his account with vintage prints and photographs, Slezkine reenacts the procession of Russian fur traders, missionaries, tsarist bureaucrats, radical intellectuals, professional ethnographers, and commissars who struggled to reform and conceptualize this most "alien" of their subject populations.Slezkine reconstructs from a vast range of sources the successive official policies and prevailing attitudes toward the northern peoples, interweaving the resonant narratives of Russian and indigenous contemporaries with the extravagant images of popular Russian fiction. As he examines the many ironies and ambivalences involved in successive Russian attempts to overcome northern—and hence their own—otherness, Slezkine explores the wider issues of ethnic identity, cultural change, nationalist rhetoric, and not-so European colonialism.