When mystery author D. B. Ziegler is late delivering her book, Abi Schore steps in to help. Surely she can give her favorite author moral support over the holiday break and get the manuscript to her boss at Tea & Sympathy Publishing in time for the new year. When Abi shows up on Ms. Ziegler’s doorstep bearing holiday treats, she’s met by the author’s handsome grandson Dov, who reveals a startling plot twist. His grandmother isn’t able to finish the book and Dov promised he’d complete it so fans won’t be disappointed—a task that’s harder than he ever imagined.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.

There's no place like home for the holidays ... especially for Lesley Carver. Life in the big city just wasn't her jam and now she's back in Hickory Falls, working at the family diner and helping her mom after she took a tumble. Lesley longs to build a life here, working at the cafe, selling her handmade ornaments and ... er, apparently reviving her high school crush on her best friend’s older brother. Only one problem, her mom wants her to leave Hickory Falls far behind.

Tilly Farriday isn’t feeling very jolly this season. Recently divorced and broke, she’s squatting in one of her rental agency’s properties until her new home is ready. The sprinkles on top of the burnt Christmas cookie that is her life? The new owner shows up early, forcing Tilly to hide in the attic to save her job…and what remains of her dignity.

Oakland-bred LaVeesha “Vee” Gilliam (Coco Jones) is a determined single mother of an autistic son and a gifted aspiring coder. When Vee loses her job as a food-services worker at the onsite restaurant at Grapengine, a large Silicon Valley tech company, she’s unable to pay for her son’s much-needed specialized education. By a twist of fate, mistaken identity, and her tech skills, Vee meets Troy Wilson (Keith Powers), the company’s wealthy founder and CEO and a wunderkind in the tech industry, who believes that Vee is a college-educated techie who works at his company.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio. From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R. James, from Edgar Allan Poe’s terrifying tale of a doppelganger to Charlotte Riddell’s Open Door that should definitely stay shut, join Stephen as he tells you some truly terrifying tales.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them. A decade has passed since the epic final battle that concluded Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). The game-changing spell that gave power to all potential Slayers persists. With new Slayers constantly emerging, things are looking grim for the bad guys.

She went to the party for fun. She left with an insatiable hunger I’m attending a Halloween freeuse party with the intention of forgetting all my troubles—and I see just the man who is going to help me. An older, enigmatic man in a pirate costume who ignites desires I never knew I had. When he offers me a night to remember, I find myself helpless to resist. Now I'm in for the experience of a lifetime, surrendering to his every command. He's bent on giving me a taste of his world--one that will leave me blushing and begging for more. I've found the perfect guy to plunder me for my ...

7 naughty women getting owned not just from — but in — their behind! Seven steamy tales featuring scenes of butt slut brats as well as fun in the other two h*les! This BOOTY bundle includes: 1. Bumping the Next Door Slut 2. Accidental Hucow 3. Belly Bumped… by Tentacles! 4. Submitting for Sugar 5. Brat's Belly: Preggers & POPPED 6. BUMPED at the Carnival 7. Birthing My Workplace Monster's Babies "She wasn't supposed to beg for it. PLEAD for it. Cry out and ache for it. But she was growing beyond desperate..."

Henry expects the worst as female soldiers truck him and several other male prisoners out to an experimental colony named "Queenshire." Upon arrival, he discovers that the women who have conquered them in combat seek to not slaughter the men en mass, but rather castrate them and take them as husbands to test whether men and women can truly live together in society. Unwittingly caught in a perverse triangle between an old school crush and the terrifying Lieutenant Frost, both of whom want to take Henry's balls and claim him as their husband, Henry has no choice but to do his best to navigate...

Have you ever thought: “What would it be like to have the power to read minds?” For 98% of the human population, it’s just a mental flight of fantasy. For the other 2% which includes Yasin Holmes and Quiana Miller, it’s reality. For Quiana, her telepathy is a blessing as she helps client after client as a therapist. However, she’s been in an ongoing battle with love and relationships since the very first time that she heard another person’s thoughts inside her head that were not her own. In a world full of normal people, she feels alone as no one around is like her. That is ...

Sistine Markstrom hates History class and hates her professor even more. When Professor Ashby gives her another bad grade, Sistine has had it until he invites her for a study session after-hours. Sistine knows she'll never be interested in History, but she does have access to a naughty wardrobe and an interest in earning her grade another way. This erotic short story is over 5K words and involves light discipline, do not read if you are opposed to certain naughty actions.