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41) Trickster69
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For a god of mischief, April Fool's Day is the highlight of the calendar, a chance to really sow some chaos and discord. For Loki, it's the perfect opportunity to get back as the noble Thor by provoking his wrath in a small town of unsuspecting mortals. One fake dating profile and a liberal amount of lies later, and the scene is set.
For a real trickster, though, there's little challenge or reward in fooling someone who's so very trusting, and as...
42) Bite Club
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Lenni lives on the civilised side of the wall, a hard worker who follows the rules. Super-fit and healthy, with everything he could wish for -- an office, app-friends, and enough medications to suppress the extraneous. Like everyone in his country, Lenni's safe. So why does the big, handsome guy cry each night? What of his aching heart and empty arms? When supervisor Lion offers a place in Bite Club, why would Lenni jump at the chance to cross the...
43) Grendel Rising
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Grendel is a troll who comes up from the world below to find love. But the passage is hard, and it's only with the aid of a human named Ken that Grendel survives. Ken, a successful, thirty-ish software engineer, lives peacefully in the suburbs with his dog Jake. Though six feet tall, Ken has always secretly dreamed of meeting a man bigger than himself. In Grendel he finds this desire met in spectacular fashion.
Grendel is attracted to Ken too, but...
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Twenty-one-year-old Briony is stagnating, living at home with her parents and younger brother. That is, until a mysterious, beautiful visitor from the sea brings her new hope of happiness.
But Freyja's not meant to be on the Isle of Wight, and she's about to leave for home shores. Can Briony find a way to keep her selkie lover by her side?
45) Beta Tester
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Noah is a tester of fully immersive video games, and one of the best, though his personality makes him rather difficult to work with. In fact, his only friend (and serious crush) is his manager, Malik. And when Noah suspects that Mal has been working with someone else, he crosses a line that could ruin even that.
It turns out that both men might be keeping their share of secrets, and it might take a very special game for them to be able to open up....
46) Body of Work
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Life with Vic isn't exactly what Christopher Minnick was expecting. His boyfriend has given him a new lease on life - literally - but he doesn't have a job, Jessie thinks he's a ghost, and there are only so many closets on hand for shoving Jonathan into. Now, with Lee back in the limelight, things just might become more than Christopher can handle.
Lee Hellstrom is hitting the big screen after more than three decades and, with the much younger Grant...
47) Prognosis
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Could you handle living forever, knowing you would watch your friends grow old and die?
Marco Sartori d'Argenzio and his partner Danilo Rosati have created a family and settled in the Duchy of Aragoni, but they still face the challenge of Marco's family's legacy: Marco may live forever, but Dani will not; unless the secret of Marco's unique DNA is found.
Marco and Dani are focused on their children and the future, not expecting the past to mar their...
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Since humanity's first steps in the Stone Age, Methuselah has harbored an ancient secret. Cursed by the shaman to witness the end of days, he searches in vain for a home, place to place, clan to clan, yearning to belong. First in prehistoric Africa and lately disillusioned with love for a hundred years in the New World, he learns all too well to guard his heart and hide his story. That changes when a car crash lands him in the hospital with a fractured...
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Lilian hurries across the park on a beautiful August day. Out of breath, she pauses and surveys the park. Memories of Jean flood her brain: their first meeting, lazy afternoon strolls, and stolen kisses beneath the beech trees. They've spent three blissful years together... and that's about to end.
Pain stabs Lilian's chest and she feels nauseous. Has she overheated or is this guilt? Lilian dithers, uncertain what to do. Jean's waiting in the rose...
50) Angel
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How do you know if you're one of the damned? As a child, Don wanted to become a priest. Now a grown man mostly at ease with being gay, he's left the Catholic Church and has chosen instead to help people through his work as a parole officer. His strong faith is shaken when his latest assignment turns out to be Michael, a young man Don hasn't seen since he took Michael to church as a child -- and saw his parish priest cast Michael out of the church...
51) Fairy Tail
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Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, atop a hill up on high, there sat a massive stone castle, its lone inhabitant a handsome but imprisoned prince. But can said prince find his freedom, not to mention his happily ever after, with his winged lover?
NOTE: This story appears in Rob Rosen's best-selling collection, Short Spurts.
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Sometimes Fate gets tired of being ignored. And some nights, nights with a little more magic than the rest, Fate will decide something needs to be done.
Enter Drualus, Senior Correspondent for the Collective Assembly of Christmas Fae, working with the Night Before Reach Out Program. He has a few short hours to change Scott Misener's outlook on life, love, and understanding. Lucky for Scott, Dru knows the perfect way to make that happen.
Following...
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Prince Amery Llewellen is the only son of King Adin of Pharr and heir to the throne. When his father is lost in battle with the barbaric tribes invading the northern Pharrisian border, Amery becomes regent in his father's stead. The royal advisers pressure him to take the crown and assume the throne, but doing so will force him to take a wife as well. Amery is loathe to do that, because he's deeply in love with one of his knights, Sir Tovin Raimus,...
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Jahl lives with his people, the Hamica, in the jungles of a nameless world. They live at one with nature. It's a simple existence, centred around family and community.One day all this is snatched away when Jahl is captured by slavers. But he's a proud man from a proud people, and he never shows his fright or anxiety, despite what he feels inside. They take him through the jungle, through swampland and farmland, to a town that has seen many like him...
55) Honour
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Recently docked after a voyage abroad, Emmett wants only to find a warm bed and good food, for himself and the cabin boy he's taken into his care. Those plans are impeded, however, by an altercation in the streets -- with a man he realizes too late is England's heir to the throne, Prince Andrewe.
When the encounter unexpectedly leads to a position in the royal household attending the prince, Emmett is not certain what to think. On one hand, it's...
56) Change of Plans
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Sequel to The Best-Laid Plans
Once upon a time, two handsome young princes fell in love, faced down adversity, and lived happily-ever-after...until one romantic evening, they unwittingly ate a confection laced with a mind-wiping toxin.
Crown Prince Efren of Zioneven blindsided Prince Marcelo of Sheburat when he used The Contingency Plan embedded in a peace treaty to marry the naïve young prince. Now, Marcelo is shocked again when he awakens in...
57) The Gift of Gold
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Gideon's father's a liar and a gambler, which means Gideon must pay for his mistakes. He's done it in the past, and he'll do it in the future. This instance with the King should be no different.
But when Gideon's father claims his son can spin straw into gold, Gideon is captured and forced into a locked room filled with a substance that only makes him sneeze and his eyes water. The King's men intimidate him and the King demands perfection. Gideon...
58) Storm Crow
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Sequel to Knight ErrantMaster fire mage Alegan Ilsace heads to the Fire Stars, great volcanic islands in the Vensalin Ocean, to harness the untamed power of Toa. He needs the power to snatch his family from death. But all of his dreams lie in shambles when he fails and pays for his impertinence in blood. Catli, Koan of his village and speaker for Toa, finds a stranger injured on the mountainside and drags him home. As Alegan's past comes to light,...
59) Magic Fingers
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David Majors should be looking forward to a long and prosperous life: after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he's attending college courtesy of Uncle Sam and riding the fast track to success. He's tall, fit, and good-looking, so shouldn't the world be his oyster?
But underneath his clothes -- and beneath the surface -- David is a mess of scar tissue and insecurity. Then he meets Kevin Boxer, another former Army Ranger. Their first night together, Kevin...
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Puppeteer Beatrice Snowdrop is well used to chatty dolls with attitude. Fortunately, headmistressy Miss Beatti knows how to discipline naughty toys. And how!
A failed relationship forces Beatti to shut up shop and hunker down for winter. The days become lonely and cold. She misses crafting dolls, but she isn't going to make another puppet or date another woman. Definitely not!
Come springtime, old flame Evie Fine offers a cash prize for the best...
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