“You’re a good girl but I don’t think waitressing is for you. Maybe you can do a different kind of service.” This is an illustrated novella. It includes beautiful images inside. Enjoy! I just graduated high school and I wanted to make some extra money. Little did I know, my stepdad and his boss had just the right position for me. Step into a world of original and steamy stepdad, erotic taboo, age gap, and forbidden romance. This story is for the ones who aren’t looking for a wham-bam-thankyou-mam type of experience. It is perfect for those who enjoy the tension that’s constantly building up toward a mind-blowing, explosive, and explicit climax. Note: This story contains age gap, step, ddlg kink, forbidden, taboo, and virgin romance tropes. All characters are within the legal age of consent, are not related by blood, and all scenes and events are legal.

“It was all kinds of wrong but my body said it was right. All I had to do was nod and take a risk.” This is an illustrated novella. It includes beautiful images inside. Enjoy! My mom has never failed to warn me about my blood sugar. However, she should’ve been more stern that day because my stepdad’s saccharine treat was just too tempting to resist… Step into a world of original and steamy stepdad, erotic taboo, age gap, and forbidden romance. This story is for the ones who aren’t looking for a wham-bam-thankyou-mam type of experience. It is perfect for those who enjoy the tension that’s constantly building up toward a mind-blowing, explosive, and explicit climax. Note: This story contains age gap, ddlg kink, step, forbidden, taboo, and virgin romance tropes. All characters are within the legal age of consent, are not related by blood, and all scenes and events are legal.

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

I never expected to meet my dad’s boss while on my hands and knees. Take Your Daughter to Work Day is supposed to be a learning event. I went with my dad to his office because I wanted to educate myself about what he does as a middle manager. But like a klutz, I tripped and fell as soon as I got there. My skirt flew up and you could see literally everything as I scrambled on my hands and knees. It was over-the-top embarrassing, especially because it happened in front of my dad’s boss! OMG, how did this happen? Patrick Lancaster is growly, gorgeous, and soooo tempting with laser blue eyes; a broad, muscled chest; and hair as black as midnight. He’s got long legs and a long something else too because the CEO got me pregnant that fateful day … … and I had his baby. My dad wants to keep it hush-hush because he’ll be fired if Mr. Lancaster finds out that I’ve had his love child. But what if the billionaire boss wants more than a fling? What if Patrick wants his son … and ME? Celebrate romance with a Valentine’s Day story featuring an OTT alpha male! Patrick Lancaster is a wealthy, gorgeous CEO who meets a feisty young girl at his office. She’s his employee’s daughter, but that only makes this story extra-forbidden. If you love secret babies and second chances, then this is the book for you. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and always an HEA for my readers.

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today’s work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate. In this thought-provoking book, David Frayne questions the central place of work in mainstream political visions of the future, laying bare the ways in which economic demands colonise our lives and priorities. Drawing on his original research into the lives of people who are actively resisting nine-to-five employment, Frayne asks what motivates these people to disconnect from work, whether or not their resistance is futile, and whether they might have the capacity to inspire an alternative form of development, based on a reduction and social redistribution of work. A crucial dissection of the work-centred nature of modern society and emerging resistance to it, The Refusal of Work is a bold call for a more humane and sustainable vision of social progress.