Monster Relationships

A complete rewrite and expansion of the original Adventures in Town Building Part II Kingsford follows a seventeen-year-old Chet as he is summoned to the Kingdom's capital. His girlfriend, Princess Ilana, is delighted to introduce him to the rest of her family. He has made such a splash all the way out in the wilderness that the King and Queen want to meet him. Or maybe they want to see the young man whose bed their daughter delights in diving into. During his initial visit, Chet starts finding issues that should be taken care of as soon as they can be accomplished, so he starts doing his ...

They found me reading futures. Now they say I belong to theirs. Ivy Holt makes a living on the boardwalk selling half-truths and glitter-dusted hope. She reads tarot cards. Spins stories. Survives. But when three horned strangers appear at her table and call her by her real name, everything changes. Gideon is the leader. Tor is the fire. Rex is the calm before the storm. They don’t want a fortune. They want a muse. Now Ivy is trapped in a glass penthouse, bound in velvet and watched from every angle. They see through her lies. Strip her defenses. Train her body to crave the shame they ...

I tracked a lowlife into the dark. I found monsters waiting in it. Mara Cole is a debt collector with nothing left to lose. Her sister’s medical bills are piling up and her latest mark disappears into the shadows of Chicago’s criminal underworld. She follows him into an alley, through a door, and into a den of monsters. Literal ones. Minotaurs rule the pit fights below the city. They’re brutal, ancient, and obsessed with dominance. Mara should be running. Instead, she’s surrounded. Caught. Claimed. Torin doesn’t want her fear. He wants her surrender. Gideon watches her with ...

Lily I was supposed to drink, dance, and disappear before dawn. Instead, I walked straight into his trap. Masked, untouchable, and watching me like he already owns me. His eyes—slitted, unblinking, green as sin—trace my every move. And when the boat leaves the dock, I realize my mistake. No escape. No way out. And the monster in the shadows? He’s done waiting. Veyx She doesn’t know me, but I know what she is. Omega. Mine. The moment she stepped onto my ship, it was over. She can fight, lie, deny the hunger curling through her body, but I smell the truth. Her scent betrays her, a ...

During Mardi Gras, anything can happen—even being auctioned to a monstrous alpha who refuses to let you go. Selene Mardi Gras was supposed to be my last wild night of freedom—one final reckless adventure before I disappeared for good. But instead of waking up with a hangover, I wake up in chains. Auctioned. Sold. Claimed. By him. Darius Tauron isn’t human. He’s a minotaur, a towering beast with molten gold eyes and curved black horns, draped in wealth and danger. He owns this city’s underworld, and now? He owns me. He says I belong to him. That he’s waited for me. That I was ...

She thought she was signing up for luxury—but she didn’t know she’d be signing her body away to monsters. Juliette I was broke, burned out, and ready to disappear when The Velvet Circle found me. They promised security, pleasure, and two elite patrons who wanted me exclusively. I thought it would be a dream—until I met Theo and Kai. Towering, horned, and terrifyingly powerful, they don’t just want to keep me. They want to own me. Touch me. Train me. Break me open and put me back together as theirs. I should’ve walked away. But now I don’t want to. Theo She came to us desperate...

She answered a desperate ad—and found herself in a world she never imagined, claimed by creatures she never thought existed. Riley I was broke, desperate, and drunk when I sent that reckless email. Now, I'm living in luxury, trapped between two powerful, irresistible minotaurs who make my every hidden fantasy come alive. Torin, cold and commanding, and Gavrax, playful yet possessive—they both push me to the edge. This arrangement was supposed to save me, not enslave me with cravings I can't escape. And now, danger from my past threatens the twisted paradise they've given me. Torin Riley...

She summoned a monster, thinking it would end the visions. Instead, it claimed her body and soul. Yvrenn The moon haunts me. Every dream is soaked in sweat and shame, a horned beast pulling me into heat and hunger I can’t explain. I thought the ritual would end it. Just herbs, blood, and desperate hope. But what came from the forest wasn’t a vision. It was real. Galthar. He dragged me from the clearing, bound my wrists, and took me across the Veil into a fortress of shadows and stone. He says I’m the chosen. That my body belongs to him. I hate him. I crave him. And with every breath, ...

Vic Howard never wanted to go to the party. He's the Invisible Guy at school, a special kind of hell for quiet, nice guys. But because his best friend is as popular as Vic is ignored, he went . . . And wished he hadn't. Because something happened to a girl that night. Something terrible, unimaginable, and Callie Wheeler's life will never be the same. Plus, now Callie has told the police that Vic is responsible.

Narcissists are everywhere. There are millions of them in the United States alone: entertainers, politicians, business people, your neighbors. Recognizing and understanding them is crucial to your not being overtaken by them, says Jeffrey Kluger, in his provocative new book about this insidious disorder. With insight and wit, Kluger frames the surprising new research on narcissism and explains the complex, exasperating personality disorder.

I stepped into the cage to survive. I didn’t know I’d be claimed in it. Nora Blake fights for rent money, bruises for cash and bleeds for a crowd that never cheers. She thought she knew pain. Thought she’d learned to endure. Then three minotaur kings found her in the cage. Silas is the cold one. Dax is the quiet one. Kael is the cruel one. Together they offer her an escape from the underground. But it’s not freedom they want. It’s ownership. Now Nora trains in their private gym, sleeps in their guarded compound and submits in their dungeon. They tie her with silk. Punish her with ...

Journey through luminescent underwater cities, whispering coral gardens, and moonlit coves where serenity awaits at every turn. Whether you’re battling sleepless nights, overwhelmed by the stresses of life, or simply craving a gentle escape before bed, these soothing stories promise to be your perfect companion for relaxation.

Hannah’s story is astonishing, the sort of information your mind and heart simply want to reject. The depths of human cruelty and callousness that she has endured are so extreme that you will find yourself struggling to accept it, even as the undeniable evidence is displayed before you. Fire has left its indelible marks upon her skin, covering her entire upper body in a pattern of soft whirls and divots, a testimony to the suffering she has endured at the hands of her ex-husband and so many others—all of whom were meant to be heroes, but revealed themselves to be monsters.

I never imagined my passion for marine biology would lead me to this—a creature out of legend, half-man, half-monster, trapped in a cove no one else has ever seen. He's more than a discovery. He’s a mystery, an enigma that calls to me. But saving him might come with a cost I’m not prepared to pay. Am I ready to face the unknown for him? For centuries, I’ve been trapped, cursed to live in this form, cut off from the world. But then she came—a woman who stirs something in me that’s been dormant for far too long. She’s my chance at freedom, but she doesn’t know the price of ...

Kayla Delacroix never believed in the legend of the Ice King. She came to the frozen north in search of answers—not a cursed king bound in ice, not a war older than time, and certainly not the kind of hunger that burns beneath his cold, unyielding exterior. But when her touch shatters his prison, she realizes too late that some myths are very, very real. Eldric was once a king. Now, he is something else. A monster forged in ice and vengeance, a ruler who has spent centuries waiting for the one thing that could set him free. Her. But waking Eldric means awakening everything that hunts him....

She agreed to be trained. She didn’t expect to crave the collar. Kessa I was offered a place in the court, a future, a purpose. All I had to do was obey. But obeying Uthgar is its own kind of torment. He’s massive, scarred, utterly unreadable—and he makes every command sound like a promise. I thought I could play the game, give him what he wanted, and keep my walls intact. But now I’m kneeling. I’m begging. And I don’t know where the game ends and the wanting begins. Uthgar Kessa is wild. Proud. Unbroken. She is the most dangerous thing I’ve ever been told to train—and the ...

They say magic can fix anything, but can it heal a broken heart? Going from police recruit to unwelcome human newcomer at Elara Academy wasn’t part of my plan. Then there's Draven - fierce, gruff, and dominant, my professor and mentor. His protective, alpha-like presence leaves me dizzy, yet we clash with the intensity of fire and ice. Navigating disgruntled students, deadly academy politics and an ominous darkness, our growing connection defies all reason. A high-stakes magical tournament forces us to face our feelings and our enemies. The magnetic pull between us proves too strong, even...

She was supposed to be sold and broken. Instead, she’s collared by a warlord who wants her defiance—and refuses to let her go. Nivra I fought the empire. I bled for the rebellion. And now I’m standing on a platform in Steelhold, barely dressed, ropes biting my wrists while monsters bid for my body. I thought I was ready for anything. Until Brakus bought me for a million credits. He didn’t touch me. He didn’t threaten me. He just put a collar on my neck and said I was his. My body betrays me when he’s near. I ache. I burn. I hate him. I need him. And I don’t know how to survive...

For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to doctor for America's Olympians while treating countless others at his office on Michigan State University's campus. It was largely within the high-pressure world of competitive gymnastics that Nassar exploited young girls, sexually assaulting hundreds of them under the guise of medical treatment. In Start by Believing, John Barr and Dan Murphy confront Nassar's acts, which represent the largest sex abuse scandal to impact the sporting world.

Part of Mary Fern's best-selling Bedtime Series, these audiobooks are specially designed to help calm worried and anxious children. Many children do not like the dark. Irrational fears can take hold of them at bedtime and being left alone can become an anxious time for them. No one really knows what sparks off these feelings of insecurity at night time. They can be triggered by so many different things. Mary Fern’s Monster Under The Bed series is aimed at calming down and reassuring children that they are safe and secure when they are tucked up in their beds.