The Decadent Sins Saga concludes with the riveting story of the young man Torin took under his wing. Now, twenty years later, he is the Mafioso to fear… They say I am the Devil’s Spawn. They aren’t wrong. They say I am evil incarnate. They aren’t wrong. I am Death. Brendan Caruso I was born as a Kent, but since my eighteenth birthday, one man taught me the true value of who I was and who I was meant to become… a man I now call Dad. Torin Caruso legally adopted me and changed my name on my nineteenth birthday. Today, I am the legal son and successor of the most feared Mafioso the country has ever known. Until me. Under Boss X’s tutelage, I became the best of the best Mafiosos out there. The word no isn’t in my vocabulary, and those who dare use it quickly learned the error of their ways. I’m fiercely protective of my Caruso family, so when Xia Silver came snooping at Decadent Sins under the premise of looking for a job, I smelled a rat. She was too refined, too articulate, and too beautiful to be as destitute as she claimed to be. Not that it stops me from allowing my testosterone to get the better of me. Instead of looking out for my father, I was too caught up expunging pent-up lust with the pretty redhead to take notice. Dad ended up behind bars because of my slackness. Now, I’m on the warpath. Xia Silver will pay for her deceit, and since her father is the Boss of the East Coast Mafia intending to oust the Caruso family, I know just how to get Torin out of jail and end their interference—killing two stones with one bird… I’m going to marry the twit. There will be no mercy. She will learn no one uses the Devil’s Spawn and walks away scot-free. PLEASE NOTE: Although the blurb is in 1st person, the book is written in 3rd person, dual POV.

The saga of the Decadent Sins Masters continues with the story of Snake, the newly appointed Assassin Leader of the Kings Inc. They say I am Goliath. They aren’t wrong. They say I am ruthless. They aren’t wrong… I am the Shadow of Death. Snake, aka, Ronan Scott I’m feared by many. I’m a Mafioso, ruthless, fearless, and live my life without regrets. I stopped counting the deaths lining the path in my past a long time ago. As the Assassin Leader of Kings Inc. and the West Coast Mafia, I will continue to protect and keep my friends’ secret safe, no matter who has to die. I have no heart. I can’t remember the last time I felt… anything. But there is one woman who has an effect on me every time we cross paths. As a man who lives in the shadows of death, she’s off limits, too good for the likes of me. As Master Goliath, she awakens the dominant beast inside of me, who refuses to let her go. Lee Powell Time waits for no one. The clock on my baby monitor is running out. I’m a spinster who crossed that dateline a long time ago. I have one goal and the time has come to take action. I want a husband and a baby. There’s only one man who makes every nerve ending in my body tingle with anticipation. A virtuoso named Master Goliath, aka Snake, a veritable giant, and a friend of my boss, Torin Caruso. The problem is that this muscled hunk completely ignores me. I’m invisible to him. Well, I am putting paid to that problem as of right now. There’s one place I’ll get his attention… Decadent Sins. The day he accepts my sassy challenge, I quickly realize maybe he’s much more than I’m capable of handling. When Ronan uncovers the identity of the mole in their organization, everything changes. He realizes he has been a fool to believe they stand a chance at a life of happiness. Will he be able to walk away? In his world, mercy isn’t an option… not for betrayal. PLEASE NOTE: Although the blurb is in 1st person, the books is written in 3rd person. The series must be read in order.

Welcome to Patricia Briggs’s world, a place where “witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people” (Booklist). It takes a very unusual woman to call it home—and there’s no one quite like Mercy Thompson. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy’s found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so-human on more than one occasion. This time she may get more than she bargained for. Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan—and she’s out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack (and her close relationship with its sexy Alpha), it won’t be Mercy’s blood Marsilia is after. It’ll be her friends’.

Book 2 in the Club Decadent Skies series is the journey of Jax Crowthorne and Ciska Farlow. My name is Ciska Farlow, and I have just about had enough of the apeshit life I’ve been given. It’s time I take charge and guide my destiny in the direction it is supposed to go. First, I’m not your everyday IT geek. Been there, done that… yeah, I even did the time… behind bars, but that’s neither here nor there. I’m clean now, even working a respectable job. Second, I detest city slickers, men who believe their perfect jawlines cause women’s legs to flop open. Not this girl, hell no, and definitely not for the likes of one alpha-hole, Jax Crowthorne. The damn man believes he’s a gift to all women. Well, I’ve got news for him… I’m Jax Crowthorne, billionaire and property developer extraordinaire. I live large. I love women… in a magnitude of variety. Why not? They love me, too. Besides, I can afford it, right? Except, I’m bored… out of my skull. It’s time some kind of shift happened in what is becoming a mundane life. I need more… maybe a woman. My own woman, one I can weave in my own personal web at Club Decadent Skies aboard the GoldenEye II Airbus. And I know just which one to target. Caught in the cusp of a power struggle with a mafia group gearing up to use my company as cover to register all their shell companies, I am forced to reconsider the fragile relationship I’m threading with a very resistant and snippy blonde— especially when the ghosts from her past threatened her life and me into losing everything. Note: Although the blurb is in 1st POV, the book is written in 3rd POV. All books in this series are standalone novels. If you’re ready for the flight of a lifetime with a suspenseful back storyline that tests each couple’s trust and resilience, then this is the series for you. An exclusive BDSM club with a difference… in the skies, inside a luxurious Airbus jet. A mile-high club that will make you wish they sold air miles online! If you have a dark side that needs an outlet, Club Decadent Skies is where you go. If you’re a fan of my other Club Cove and Castle Sin series, then this is for you.

After Charmed ended in 2006, witches were relegated to sidekicks of televisual vampires or children's programs. But during the mid-2010s they began to resurface as leading characters in shows like the immensely popular The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the Charmed reboot, Salem, American Horror Story: Coven, and the British program, A Discovery of Witches. No longer sweet, feminine, domestic, and white, these witches are powerful, diverse, and transgressive, representing an intersectional third-wave feminist vision of the witch. Featuring original essays from noted scholars, this is the first critical collection to examine witches on television from the late 2010s. Situated in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement, essays examine the reemergence and shifting identities of TV witches through the perspectives of intersectional gender studies, hauntology, politics, morality, monstrosity, violence, queerness, disabilities, rape, ecofeminism, linguistics, family, and digital humanities.

Is mercy more important than justice? Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had been exiled from political life. In this book, Malcolm Bull analyses and challenges the Enlightenment’s rejection of mercy. Political realism, Bull argues, demands recognition of the foundational role of mercy in society. If we are vulnerable to harm from others, we are in need of their mercy. By restoring the primacy of mercy over justice, we may constrain the powerful and release the agency of the powerless. An important contribution to political philosophy from an inventive thinker, On Mercy makes a persuasive case for returning this neglected virtue to the heart of political thought.

Kaden Frazer I’m a busy man. Running a black ops recovery and crisis management company is hard work, especially since I like to be out in the field getting high on adrenaline and chasing the bad guys. What I don’t have time for is to babysit my friend's niece. Kaden found balance in the demands of his job at Club Rouge, where he was one of the founding partners. Nothing beat the thrill of watching open defiance turn into untethered submission as pretty cheeks bloomed whenever he gave a sub… the look. What he didn’t expect was to be enamored with a woman worming her way into the club under false pretenses. Sage Lewis I’m done with it. Fed up. Sick and tired of overprotective men, my uncle included. I’m an FBI undercover operative who can take care of herself. I’m thirty-four-years old and have a black belt in Taekwondo, for heaven’s sake. And I don’t need a Daddy Dom… I don’t! Getting inside Club Rouge was easy. She had an inside contact. Getting her bottom blistered hadn’t been part of the plan. Getting lost in the Dom demanding she call him Daddy… impossible! But it happened. All of it… which would’ve been fine, except now she was caught between a rock and a hard place. A twist of fate brought them together when the case she was working on was leaked, putting her life in danger. Now, she had two battles to fight. Staying alive… and denying the man who kept insisting she was his.