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A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Miéville’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Perdido Street Station, this latest epic introduces a whole...

Dominick fights his demons every day, every night. Dominick wants to create a better life and find the future his father never wanted him to have. Dominick suppresses his identity and feelings until he meets Denise Ramsey. Smart, stunningly gorgeous, and sharing his love for motorcycles, Denise is everything Dominick longs for in a girl but knows he can never have. When a past love threatens her life and brings out Dominick's suppressed dark side, he must decide if she's worth the risk.

After fatally shooting the Confederate sharpshooter who killed his best friend, Zach Harkin's sense of revenge changes to deep remorse when he views the dead man's diary and photo. Haunted, suffering from post-traumatic stress, and unable to serve, he is mustered out of service. With scant information, he begins an epic journey to search for the dead man's family. He is captured, imprisoned, tortured, and thoroughly tested as a human being, and after escaping, he never expects to find love in the war-ravaged South.

Everyone in Jonesville thought that Bryce Evans had the perfect life in high school: he was the Mayor's son, the quarterback for the football team, the boyfriend of the head cheerleader and had a 4.1 GPA. His acceptance to Notre Dame came as no surprise but when he chose to enlist in the Marines instead, everyone was shocked. Lexi Lord was the quiet girl in school and kept to her small group of eccentric friends. She had no connection to any of the popular kids except for one incident on prom night when her path crossed with Bryce's.

My one-night stand is back in town. I thought Elias was the one. After only one night in his arms, he captured my heart. Promises were made. But none were kept. Because my broody, military hero disappeared. Five years later, I've moved on. At least that's what I tell myself when Elias shows up again. He's not the same man. He's scared, withdrawn, and stalks me from afar. I want to hate him, But his effect on me is the same. I shouldn't want him. I definitely shouldn't give him a second chance. But these two pink lines prove I never stood a chance at resisting him.

A devastating accident leaves Kate with a disfiguring scar. She longs for someone to love her, someone who sees her true beauty from the inside. Cooper's lived a hard life and doesn't believe in love but needs someone to help him on the ranch. Looks don't matter to him, or so he thought. He treats Kate with kindness but she longs for his love...something he tells her she will never have.

In Scarred, Symone is trying to piece her life together after suffering a violent attack organized by her nemesis, Shaena. She has support from her "companion", Zy, and her new peer counselor, Llana Davis, whom she does not see eye to eye with. Llana Davis seems to have everything going for her - except for the verbally abusive boyfriend who is gradually breaking her down. All of her training and compassion is tested when she is paired with the hotheaded Symone Lane. Will the girls be able to overcome their differences and help one another?

Sometimes love can heal you from your scarred past. But sometimes it's the love we don't expect that makes the biggest impact. Lexi Lord has dreamed of dating Bryce Evans for years. But now that her dream has become a reality, she is no longer sure that he is the man for her. When a death unveils a deep secret, Bryce and Lexi's world together is torn apart and they are both forced to question everything surrounding their relationship and very existence.

Ashways, also known as the city of euphoria, is a place that promises joy and excitement to all who live there. There is no cost, apart from the fact that no one can enter or leave, as a desert wasteland surrounds the dystopian city and keeps the societies hostage to their own settlements. Join me as I journey through the Ashways, and discover that this is not a fictional place at all, and is rather a place and a reality for millions of people all over the globe....

Home again at Planter’s Point, Marcus Tait is a wounded man. He’s long since recovered from the horrific mine accident, but his recovery from the woman who deserted him is far from over. Buried in his work on his cousin’s ranch, he fears he’s destined to become a lonely, bitter old man, one who will never love again. Six months a widow, Jessica Archer finds every day a struggle. It isn’t just the loneliness and grief - it’s trying to raise her five-year-old son in her husband’s childhood home, with her cold, overbearing in-laws blaming her for Seth’s death.

In 1882, Daisy Creek was a small town with a dwindling economy, but for Jill Graythorn, it whispered a promise of hope. Raised in a Boston orphanage, Jill continues to have nightmares about the fire that killed her family, and she still has the scars to remind her of her troubled past. Desperate for a brighter future, she responds to a mail-order bride ad, and soon, the deputy of Daisy Creek is her shimmer of light in the darkness.

Life outside the domed city of Kasis is impossible–or at least that’s what its citizens have always been told. But when Burn finds herself on the wrong side of the ruling Peace Force–and the wrong side of the city’s walls–what she discovers could upend civilization as they know it.

Sauced Up - A slang (or 'colloquial' for the more literary-minded) term for being drunk or high on illegal drugs, which many of the characters either are or wish to be. Also hinting at the 'saucy' and transgressive elements that fuel each story. Think smashed, horny, and shitfaced. Scarred - An insinuation in regards to the emotional state of the personas portrayed. An ill-intentioned wink towards the debauched and defaced world they inhabit. Think distressed, damage, and, perhaps most potently, disturbed.

Widower Abner Randolph is the father of five sons, and he’s in despair. Having lost his own wife 14 years ago, he’s brought up his sons all alone. They’re now all grown up, but none of them seems inclined to find a wife and settle down. Abner turns to his good friend for help and is introduced to someone who changes the lives of all five men forever....

The fire destroyed her but saved her from marriage to a cruel man. Nelly knows no man will ever love her as she bears horrific scars from a fire where she was hailed as a hero. The loveless marriage she was destined for broke apart when the man couldn't bear to look at her. But Boyd's ad has her heart fluttering and hope ignites in her soul. Boyd wants a woman to take care of his house. The handsome sheriff wants only a marriage of convenience, nothing more.

Torn between two centuries and two men. The Great Charleston Earthquake catapults Penrose Heatherton from the 1880s into the present day. Though she's still residing in Arundell Manor, it's a very different world with a different man inhabiting the ancestral estate. And Keat Arundell is every...

Mail Order Bride: Cowboy Father Finds Beauty Within Her Scarred Body tells the story of God bringing two people together and finding the true definition of love in 1867. Susan, a beautiful daughter to a preacher from California, begins to think she will never find a suitable husband. The men in her town are either all taken or are not of the church. While at a store, she reads a magazine advertisement from a man in California, Gabriel, seeking a "mail order bride".

TORN BETWEEN PEACE AND PASSION Former serf Daniel had journeyed to Tanis in search of harmony between humans and vampires. Though the citadel's facade promised peace, it wasn't difficult to find the danger lurking in the shadows. Yet it was the Bloodlady known as Isis, an ancient, beautiful...