Jamie Goldberg suspects his homosexuality at an early age. He manages to hide it from his homophobic Seventies Detroit community, his Jewish political activist parents, and even from himself until his rape, at the hands of a male prostitute, at the age of 16. Profoundly ashamed, he hides in two worlds. One world is an intellectual cocoon spun from music, art, theater, and literature. The other is a darker world where sadomasochistic desires attempt...

Fresh-out-of-jail miscreant, twenty-five year old Nicolette Shue returns to the Virginia ranch where she'd spent part of her childhood. She has her share of a life insurance payout, yet what stretches before her is a desolate future: her parents are dead, her siblings are away at boarding school, and she has no useful skills for employment.Her friend Mulder suggests horse racing and though Nicolette thinks it's a farfetched idea, she buys a horse...

Self-discovery. Sounds simple, right? After all, you're already there. You're already you. So, it can surprise us that it takes so much time, and so much effort. It surprises Nathan Bartlett. Nathan has lost two family members in a few years. It surprises him to realize he hadn't known them nearly as well as he'd thought, and this makes him question his own worth. And it makes him feel like he belongs nowhere. So, he goes on a spiritual quest. Professional...

What's worse than being stuck in a video game? Being stuck in your bank alt. After weeks of being stuck in the game, life hasn't gotten any easier. Rake is trying to find a way to log out but the mystery still seems endless. When a friend appears before him, begging for help, Rake gets pulled into a rescue mission. When the mission takes a turn for the worst the trapped players must unite to survive. But can they unite without a leader? Everybody...

By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam, Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (published in the U.S. as Cody) quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America. So beautiful, brave, and ahead of its time that William S. Burroughs was an early...

Feral finds a strange box made of unbelievable material. Then, Feral starts thinking strange thoughts. And then, a stranger appears out of nowhere. Is it all connected? And if so, where does all this strangeness lead? Curiosity burns in Feral to find out...

Trapped in the sultry land of Telepaths, Irwin and Kipp attempt to outsmart creatures that can read minds, plant seeds of doubt, and reap mental blows. Without Yace there to keep them safe, they are at the whim of merciless men, men who enjoy corrupting, who relish killing the innocent and guilty alike. This is what Yace's father, Lord and Master Dephen Ishik wanted-Irwin now knows this. Fortunately, Irwin befriends an Empath named Jorge, who says...

A 15-year-old girl is hiding from her biological father in an exclusive boarding school for difficult girls in New Zealand. She and her mother changed their names and hair, but they live with their getaway bags packed. When another girl at the school is found in a coma, the question has to be asked; did the father poison the wrong girl by mistake?What if someone has gender dysphoria but doesn't want to be defined as a T in LGBTQ? In a world split...

Growing up with a drug addicted father, eighteen-year-old Matthias was well used to having to clean up his messes. Paying dealers and begging for more time wasn't anything that he hadn't done before. But when he is abducted off the street on his way home from school he knows that this is going to be different. Matthias isn't going to be able to talk his way out of it this time. He is trapped and there is no way out. Stone is a rich man, a well known...

When unemployed Miles Larson retreats to rural Minnesota to lick his wounds, his dissatisfaction turns him into prey for a powerful, ancient being. With an enchanted silver flute in his hand, Miles enters an erotic fairyland where the sorrows weighing on his heart don't exist at all. The catch to his newfound paradise: three different magical beings have their eye on his soul.To escape the dreamworld, Miles must battle against the Lord of Dreams who...