Transported to a medieval realm of magic and myth, a World War II resistance fighter undertakes a perilous quest in this classic fantasy adventure. Holger Carlsen is a rational man of science. A Danish engineer working with the Resistance to defeat the Nazis, he is wounded during an engagement with the enemy and awakens in an unfamiliar parallel universe where the forces of Law are locked in eternal combat with the forces of Chaos. Against a medieval backdrop, brave knights must take up arms against magical creatures of myth and faerie, battling dragons, trolls, werewolves, and giants. Though Holger has no recollection of this world, he discovers he is already well-known throughout the lands, a hero revered as a Champion of Law. He finds weaponry and armor awaiting him—precisely fitted to his form—and a shield with three hearts and three lions emblazoned upon it. As he journeys through a realm filled with wonders in search of the key to his past, Holger will call upon the scientific knowledge of his home dimension, the destinies of both worlds hanging in the balance. Before Thomas Covenant, Roger Zelazny’s Amber, and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the great Poul Anderson introduced readers to the Middle World and the legendary hero Ogier the Dane. Inventive and exciting, Three Hearts and Three Lions is a foray into fantasy that employs touches of science fiction from an award-winning master of the speculative.

He wants his best friend's girl. How can he want his best friend too? When Connor met Katy, he knew she was the one. But it wasn't meant to be. Six years later, with PTSD and an honourable discharge from the army, he has nowhere else to go except home-back to the only two people who can help him heal.Connor should leave, but he can't seem to stay away. Falling for Katy again isn't supposed to happen. Neither is falling for his best friend, Levi. His very straight best friend.He's fought for his country, and now he's fighting for love. This is one battle Connor cannot afford to lose. Three Hearts is a slow-burn, emotionally charged, friends to lovers, bi-awakening MMF romance that will leave you breathless. Previously published as Delectable, it is the first story in the Rule of Three series and can be read as a standalone.

To the outside world, Roxanne seems terribly lonely: her husband Earl has passed away, and her daughter Linda was murdered. What people don’t understand is that Earl and Linda are still keeping Roxanne company, reincarnated in the forms of a wiener dog and standard poodle. But this relationship—not idyllic, it’s true, but at least relatively harmonious—is disrupted when Roxanne accidentally hits a pit bull with her car. On the precipice of having the dog put down, she recognizes the eyes of her daughter’s killer, Helmut. Should she choose retribution, or forgiveness? This is the highly original set-up of “You’re Home Now,” the opening story in Rachel Rose’s debut work of fiction. These are clever, engaging stories with a compelling link: the characters, generally living on the fringes of society for some reason or another, all have better relationships with animals than with other humans. There’s a diverse range of creatures, with stories featuring a parrot, an octopus, rats, a chameleon, a pig (Francis Bacon), deer and bats, as well as the more traditional dogs and a pair of kittens named Yin and Yang. The stories in The Octopus Has Three Hearts combine vivid characters and original premises with Rose’s trademark combination of whimsy and irony to explore universal elements of the human condition, from parenthood to sexuality, identity to fidelity. It is a collection that will appeal to animal lovers, readers of literary fiction and anyone looking for their place to belong.

Falling deathly ill in his New Jersey home in 1990, it was highly unlikely that six year-old Christophe Lafontant would even live to see his seventh birthday. Although left completely perplexed as to the cause of this mysterious illness, doctors still did everything in their power to keep him alive. Christophe survived a pacemaker implantation, two heart transplants, diabetes, dialysis treatment, a kidney transplant, a tracheostomy, and other life altering procedures. Desperate to attain a life of "normalcy", Christophe spent his whole life trying to conceal his illness and true identity from those around him. Instead, he chose to live in a world of disillusioned perfection until one day uncovering a deep-seated family betrayal. It wasn't long, however, before those painfully dark emotions he tried so hard to bury would catch up with him, causing him to sink deeper into an already existing drug addiction. Although he consistently defied the odds medically, he was slowly dying emotionally. 1 Man, 3 Hearts, and still ALIVE.

A wolf shifter, a demon, and a harpy all walk into a hotel. It's not the start of a joke, it's a clusterf*ck. One favor throws Zephyrine into a situation that has her questioning the main rule that harpies cling to; men aren't for keeping. But accidents happen. How's a harpy supposed to say no to a hot night with not one, but two men? Greg is sure he's found his soulmate, but his wolf doesn't seem to agree. That is until a harpy walks in and turns his world upside down. What's a wolf-shifter to do when his wolf wants not one person, but two? But Asa isn't going to let Gregory go without trying everything. And if that means adding a feisty harpy to their bed, he'll be damned if that stops him. How's a demon to get his ex-lover and harpy guest to stay? By seducing them of course. Get your paranormal love on for this MMF story Swords will cross. Mating marks will be traded. And maybe, just maybe, a harpy will decide that some men are for keeping.

[Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Consensual BDSM Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, with M/M elements, public exhibition, pegging, spanking, sex toys, HEA] In Hell’s Delight at a Valentine’s Day charity auction, newly divorced Lacey Dvorak is won by two smoking hot—but unfortunately gay—merchants. She is pleasantly shocked to discover the bidding is no empty gesture. The men have been looking for a third, a woman, to complete their union. Rancher Devin Jonas and sex toy shop owner Chase Moran want Lacey in their bed to initiate her in the intricacies of their BDSM power plays. And Chase has an entire store full of toys they can play with—if they can learn to share. Testing each other’s limits and boundaries, each one wants the upper hand. But when Lacey’s cheating ex gets wind of the new lovers’ arrangement, his wounded pride leads him to a hateful campaign of vengeance against Chase’s store, and the sleazy mayor uses his leverage to get his heart’s desire Devin to do his bidding. Don’t they know? Cheaters never win, at least not in Hell’s Delight. ** A Siren Erotic Romance

At 88, the author shares his loves and losses and his life experiences in a riveting style that will enlighten, enchant and entertain the reader.